Quotes About Inspiration

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.

Tis toil's reward, that sweetens industry, As love inspires with strength the enraptur'd thrush.

A work of art comes out of a state of deep stillness.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

It is easy to work when the soul is at play.

IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

Often, I get the feeling that the story is really happening somewhere and all I'm doing is trying to work out the best way to tell it.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.

When you work regularly, inspiration strikes regularly.

When you work with a great director, you can have a great partnership.

The miracle is that a work of art should live in the person who reads it.