Quotes About Inspiration

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job there's always, always, always another.

On the first day of class, the Visual Arts building reclined before me like an old brick whore, egging me to show her one, last, good time. I doubted I was up to the task, but regardless, I entered from the rear, just to give myself the slightest mental edge.

I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and it's been going feetingly.

Deep inside every customer is a treasure trove of half-baked ideas, creative capacity, and ingenuity-in-the-raw.

Be absorbed in what your customer is saying; be inspired by what your customer is meaning.

Invite your customer to take risks in the pursuit of inspired innovation, and be your customer's net when they step onto that high wire.

Innovation dances to the sweet sound of a banjo. Banjo behavior makes people want to jump up and join in.

Your being in the middle of your imagination turned on is not like a boardroom; it's like a candy shop.

Co-creation partnerships are free-idea zones because they are neighborhoods of acceptance and goodness.

The dream is not a drug but a way. Listen to where it can take you.

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

It didn't drain me as I thought it might. Instead, it invigorated me. Such was love's magic—the giver gained more than the receiver.

The force of a person's believing seeps into those around him— into the very earth and air and water—until there's nothing else.

He told me that visions of all he needed to write came to him at the oddest moments, forcing him to abandon other activities and write them down.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art.

A line from a movie she once saw flits through her mind: Life gets in the way of art. That pretty much sums up my existence, she thinks.

Bless me that I might be like the Rani of Jhansi, the Queen of Swords," I say. "Bless me that I have the courage to go into battle when necessary, no matter how bleak the situation. Bless me that I may be able to fight for myself and my child, no matter where I am.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My mom's the one I look up to for everything. I feel like I'm a lump of clay and she's moulding me into a woman.

My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.

It's hard to encapsulate my inspiration because there are so many different looks, but I think it's just like, sexy girl you see walking down the street in a cool outfit. A lot of eyelet, a lot of leather, playing with the hard and the soft, the good and bad inside of us all.

Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time: psychological disorder, social disorder, metaphysical disorder, or physical disorder, constantly happening. If you are trying to stop those situations, you are looking for external means of liberating yourself, another answer. But if we are able to look into the basic situation, then chaos is the inspiration, confusion is the inspiration.

The art is never about what you write about. The art is about how you write about what you write about.