Quotes About Inspiration

The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

Do work that you are proud of with your talented friends.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work

My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

Ask photographers to write and they have nothing to say; ask them to talk about their work and they won't shut up.

Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.