Quotes About Inspiration

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way things once were, or perhaps, the way they could be, then I've done my job.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.

What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

One works without thinking how to work.

Chess, like any creative activity, can exist only through the combined efforts of those who have creative talent, and those who have the ability to organize their creative work

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.

For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Work for money, design for love.

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.