Quotes About Inspiration

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

Inspiration is a joke, real artists sit down and work

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.

It's really nice to work with people who understand and really love the artistry of building sets, it's great.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant?

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.

If I didn't want to work for a couple of years I wouldn't have to - it's a great feeling, to know I'm doing it because I want to do it.

Love's a recurring theme through my work.

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

So, I am independently well-off and don't have to do anything, but I still do. I write books, lecture around the world, work with scientists and governments.

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

The most interesting studio work, and perhaps the most practicable, is painting from pencil sketches and notes... It ensures the elimination of all facts but those essential to the effect.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.