Quotes About Inspiration

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

How do you take something and make it special? The answer is a lot of hard work and a great deal of imagination.

I only want to do the kind of work that I would like to go and see, that's going to teach me something new, that involves working with people I can learn something from and I can give something to.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

Nature as it is-nature with nothing selected or discarded from it-cannot become a work of art.

I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

The work of the artist is to heal the soul.

Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.

Whenever I'm asked to identify my best work, or my favorite, my answer has always been the same - 'My next one!'

Creativity involves putting your imagination to work. In a sense, creativity is applied imagination.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.

The work keeps getting deeper, more honest. I continue to work on a piece until I feel it breathe on its own.

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.