Quotes About Inspiration

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

Writing is a strange and solitary activity. There are dispiriting times when you start working on the first few pages of a novel. Every day, you have the feeling you are on the wrong track. This creates a strong urge to go back and follow a different path. It is important not to give in to this urge but to keep going.

I've never really had the urge to make an English album.

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

The urge to purge the material I come up with is, I guess, an ongoing process.

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?

I don't want to limit myself. I want to keep doing all sorts of roles. I guess what lies behind this urge is the conviction that movies have changed my life. And certain performances have inspired me to try to be someone different.

As the leaders of this great country, I urge my fellow colleagues in the House, governors, and presidential candidates alike to hold ourselves up to a higher standard.

For anyone who doesn't have that connection with Mozart, I urge those people to go and find some of his music, because it can quite genuinely make you just glad to be alive.

As an actor there is an urge to act only if something really interesting comes my way.

Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.

Some amazing records have this power to leave you with inspiration; you're left with the urge to write something. And some records are totally overwhelming, because they are so good, they burn the bridges behind them.

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

For me to get up and feel the urge to go to the set and all that, I have to feel there is something tremendously vibrating to achieve there. I need to lose sometimes a consciousness of the person and the reality in order to be happy to come back into the reality and happier to live it for this cause, to be an artist in this life.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

I don't believe that anything's totally invented... If you're completely inventing a story, there wouldn't be an urge to tell it.