Quotes About Inspiration

You too are a work of art.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

writing, like living, is lonely work.

I smoke pot when I work. I take a couple of tokes before I start. It just loosens you up.

There's a spiritual current in my work because there's a spiritual current in my life.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.

I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.

Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.

If you're going to have to beg them to play, it's not going to work.

I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.