Quotes About Inspiration

We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.

But if you're talking about fine art work, then I think you have to ask yourself some pretty deep questions about why it is you want to take pictures and what it is you want to say.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

I did not steal other people's work! I may have appropriated some styles, but I did not steal. My work is full... of homages to everyone in my medium - not theft!

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

I love writing. I love to write, and I would eventually love to have some of my work produced.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

The future is destined only for tomorrow's work and today's thoughts.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen.