Quotes About Inspiration

I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

I hope that my work helps people - that's the thing that drives me and keeps me going.

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

I want to work with great people. Great people really make you better.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with amazing artists. I'm very blessed.

Bisexuality is almost a necessary factor in artistic production; at any rate, the tinge of masculinity within me helped me in my work.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!