Quotes About Inspiration

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

The memory of how we work will endure beyond the products of our work.

How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.

I actually try and work before my mind is telling me what to do.

Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.

Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination.

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

When its comes to music and books 'OK' is not good enough. We need creative work that floors us! That we can't believe the beauty and brains and style and cool of. 'OK' can kiss my arse.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.

Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

A poor leader will tell you how many people work for them. A great leader will tell you how many people they work for.

My young men shall never work. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.

A work of art may be understood as a conductor from the artist's mind to the viewer's. But it may never reach the viewer, or it may never leave the artist's mind.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope.

Most people have music in the center of their lives. I believe my work sheds light on how music affects us and why it is so influential.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

Ideas for work are coming to me in abundance...I'm going like a painting-locomotive.

I'm always looking at the computer. I make all of my work on the computer at some point or another. Almost all of the paintings come from a file.