Quotes About Inspiration

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Inspiration and work ethic - they ride right next to each other.

Real management is developing people through work.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

I've always wanted to work for Walt Disney. That's what I thought I was going to do when I grew up.

I want my work to create space where people can meet God, rather than give them something they can "apply" to their daily life.

I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.

Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it.

Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.