Quotes About Inspiration

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

I think people have come to expect that in artistic representation; that every work of art should be a work of extravagant hope.

To work from nature is to improvise.

One day I noticed that I could go on working my art motif no matter what the weather might be. I no longer needed the sun, for I took my light everywhere with me.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.

Growing up in Memphis, I have always admired St. Jude's for the magnificent work they do.

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.

The successful man has enthusiasm. Good work is never done in cold blood; heat is needed for forge anything. Every great achievement is the story of a flaming heart.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Speech,' which we did, became a worldwide smash because people loved the personal story.

There is no Sixth Commandment in art. The poet is entitled to lay his hands on whatever material he finds necessary for his work.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

When you can't create you can work

Talking about one's work releases the energy and tension to do and make.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.