Quotes About Inspiration

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, 'notwithstanding,' in the long run remakes the world.

Perhaps there would be more anxiety in my work if I lived in New York.

Every work of art is about everything.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

Any song I have to work on longer than a day, I just leave it. It's not gonna work. Everything that's good is really instant.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

Creativity is part sweat - not just beads of it, but sometimes buckets.

The great-at-anything do not set to work because they are inspired, but rather become inspired because they are working. They don't waste time waiting for inspiration.

In a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions.

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning.

Yes, it is God who works in you. And, yes, there is work for you to do. Yes, the Spirit empowers you to do the work. And, yes, you do the work.

It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me.

...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself.

The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet.

At times I'd much rather talk about other work.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Throughout the course of my life, I've been blessed to work with extremely talented people.