Quotes About Inspiration

I know that the creator will go, but his work survives. That is why to escape death, I attempt to bind my soul to my work.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: Saint.

I want to be a living work of art.

I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream.

Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... You'll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

I'm driven by passion. I mean, I am tired right now. I work to a point of abandon. I am fueled by my understanding of the need for self-expression that exists for young people.

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality

The best artists are the ones that work the hardest, and if you work hard enough, you'll eventually experience the happy accidents that are art.