Quotes About Inspiration

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

I love going to the movies and being moved emotionally. I like my work, singing and writing in my journal.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift of the gods.

To see things in black and white is to see the basics, and I would recommend to any designer of gardens that he go out and look at his work by the light of the moon.

For me, what's wonderful for me at this stage of my life is that I get to work with people I've admired for a long time.

I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work. Image...that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.

Creativity is energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.

I work from the inside out.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

The best thing about my job is that I work with the best creative people in the business in their fields.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper.

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.