Quotes About Inspiration

I have to work, for my soul.

Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.

You want what you create to live, and I give my all in my work because I want it to live.

Great work comes from great joy. Leave the angst for the movies; do art - that is fun.

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead.

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

This is something essential to art: reception is never its goal. What counts for me is that my work provides material to reflect upon. Reflection is an activity.

The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development

I want to show kids, look where I came from. You can do it too if you believe and are willing to work hard.

I usually have several things on the go. Whether it is my own drawings for the next work that I am working on while a sculpture is being fabricated or several works at different points in production.

The true value of a leader is not measured by the work they do. A leader's true value is measured by the work they inspire others to do.