Quotes About Inspiration

Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

I never had posters on my wall and when I meet actors that I really admire, it's exciting because I get to work with them.

What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.

It's always a pleasure to talk about someone else's work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

Getting up at 4 in the morning, I slave away all day until by the evening I'm exhausted, and I end by forgetting all my responsibilities, thinking only of the work I've set out to do.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

The work of art expresses precisely those things which do not die. It must do so, however, in a form that bears witness to the artist's own era.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

A chance to collaborate with one of my favorite bands in a completely open and supportive creative environment... some our best work.