Quotes About Inspiration

We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

Great companies with the way they work, first start with great leaders.

Great leaders don't blame the tools they are given. Great leaders work to sharpen them.

Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It's unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.

People always ask me where they should go to work, and I always tell them to go to work for whom they admire the most.

What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail; in this way you let the lava grow cool.

The light, colors, and energy of Ibiza are constant sources of inspirations for my work. I always leave Ibiza recharged and full of ideas for new shades, looks, and products.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.