Quotes About Inspiration

I was a huge Operation Ivy fan.

In a funny way, the illness spurred me on. I thought to myself, 'I've got to get through this operation to make a blues album.'

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.

If I have a certain opinion, I try to incorporate that into my work.

You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier.

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.

I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?

God and other artists are always a little obscure.....

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

Todos estamos en el fango, pero algunos miramos las estrellas

To become a work of art is the object of living.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets make a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought:

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars