Quotes About Inspiration

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

I'm passionate about the empowerment and healing of girls and women. Where I do the most work in that regard is in my songwriting.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action.

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

Creating and producing creative work, to me those are all happy accidents.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

I don't think I'm going to do any good work this morning.

Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.