Quotes About Inspiration

At first when I realized I was a romantic, I was sort of shocked and shamed. But it is true... that the material I work most with is emotion.

The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

I work with whatever mediums seems best suited to evoking the sorts of thoughts and emotions I am interested in playing with.

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.

What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . .

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

I don't just work! I think about my work, reflect on my work and think of what changes can I make, how can I elevated my game.

I made a conscious effort that I just wanted to work with people that were going to make me better and that was the main thing - writers, directors, in whatever medium.

I work to drive the awe away, yet awe impels the work.

I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

No one else can tell you what your life's work is, but it's important that you find it. There is a part of you that knows - affirm that part.

Some people make sharp distinctions sort of between their recreational musings and their professional work. I don't make that distinction very much