Quotes About Inspiration

I was and still am a massive fan of [Murphy] Cillian's work - always have been. Obviously he's a great deal older than me, so I've sort of grew up watching Cillian's work. But I'm very much a fan.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

My dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest-working man I ever knew. It's because of him that I learned from my youngest age to respect the dignity of work and the dignity of working people.

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

Where people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work.

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book!

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words.

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I've always felt that work - learning from people who know more than I know - is what keeps you going.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

Your work is to go forth into this physical environment looking for things that are a vibrational match to joy, connecting to Source Energy, and then following with the inspired action.

I've always worn a hat when I work. I think it also comes from a picture of Rothko I saw with a painter's hat on.

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.