Quotes About Inspiration

I only want my work to make people happy.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

I feel threatened, and sometimes it makes me angry because I can't do anything about that, there's just too many issues. But in a way I think my work is meant to get people out of that.

You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.

I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.

I'm always inspired by people who raise the bar, whether in their field of work, parenthood, or giving back.

Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

The more excited and committed you are to your work, the more excited and committed will be the people around you. The leader always sets the tone for the department or organization.

If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.