Quotes About Inspiration

Meeting and talking to the artist adds a special element to collecting contemporary art that makes the work an irreplaceable treasure rather than just another possession.

The work of art is an ostentatiously improbable occurrence.

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.

Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that's the job I do.

It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.

If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

My dad said 'When you love what you do, you never work a day in your life,' and I agree with that.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

I write in my sleep. I don't know how, but I'll work on a song, go to sleep and it's finished when I wake up.

When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.