Quotes About Inspiration

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

What I expect from any work of art is that it surprises me, that it violates my customary valuations of things and offers me other, unexpected ones.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.

I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

The thing I do at the beginning is a "voice journal," a free form doc that is the character speaking to me. I just work on it until I start to hear different from my own, or the other characters.

I've never learned to drive because I get lots of ideas when I'm a passenger in a car. I love to get in a car with a driver and just think and work things out.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

The satisfaction of producing a work of art is the thing of getting off on it on some level.

The painting cannot be laid aside even for a day; for it takes constant work to keep 'flowing,' but above that it takes concentration, which in our language is consecration.