Quotes About Inspiration

Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.

As a kid, I loved to dress up as Ian Dury and run around hitting people with drumsticks. Members of my family, neighbours, friends, kids at school - no one was safe from my rhythm sticks.

There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.

My oldest boy, when I do skip, he's gonna take over my slot. He was sitting on the stair in diapers wearing my mask with sticks while we were downstairs trying to learn how to be a band.

Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

Sometimes you get ensnared by an idea, and it's what I call 'the sticky burr': You go hiking, and a burr sticks to you, and that's the film you're going to make.

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

Having fun is fantastic, and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work, or else it's going to feel stiff.

You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.

Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.

You can't let regret stifle your creativity.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

I've been motivated by overcoming challenge and overcoming the hurdles and obstacles that face me. There still is plenty out there to get motivated by.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.

One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.

Every society needs people who can encourage and stimulate and cheer. They are the ones who make the world run. You can be one of them!