Quotes About Inspiration

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

I have no doubts. I know what gets in the way and I know what encourages me to do more work.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

I learned from Van Morrison and BB King that the first take is the best. It's about capturing a moment. It's the same as love's first kiss. If you try to do it again, it doesn't work so well.

When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

I'm more enthusiastic and excited about work than ever. I know now what I'm about.

Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

My studio is a fantastic combination of old and new, and that's how I've always liked to work.

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

When I listen to what I did under the influence - 10 years of work - I don't think it either enhanced or impaired me. It didn't have that much to do with it.

I would love to work with Kristin Wiig one day. I find her hilarious, and I totally idolize her.

Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

Writing is thinking and thinking is hard work.

My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.

I go to work the minute I open my eyes.

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge.

There is nothing a good long walk can't help work out.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.