Quotes About Inspiration

Since I always go to work as Elvira, maybe a giant version of a cat. A black cat. I love cats and I think Elvira would look really good sitting on one.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

Motown was the mecca. It was every writer's dream to work there.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

I don't want to think my life as a career. I'm interested in my work only because of the meaning I can make.

I'm the type who'd rather not work than work on something I'm not into. I've done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.