Quotes About Inspiration

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Work up imagination to the state of vision.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.

Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind.

You can't make people work harder. People have to want to work hard and make a difference. Purpose matters.

Dream, believe, work hard and succeed.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

A lot of times I pick passion projects but at the end of the day, I don't think much of what's going to work, I want to think about how it feels to do the work.

I definitely challenge people. But hopefully, I am working harder than anybody else, and so people won't resent the fact that I want them to work hard, as well.

I work really out of mythology, so often I work out of a story that has remained lodged inside somehow, or I work out of history, you know, out of a sense of historical inevitability with characters.

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.