Quotes About Inspiration

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

The knack is to find your own inspiration, and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.

I really would like to work with kids if I was not a model.

If we keep our eyes fixed on God alone, then truly he must work in us and nothing, neither the crowd nor any place can hinder him in this.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.

I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together. It's never a theme or a trick.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

Only when the heart loves can the intellect do great work.

Inspiration is a word used by people who aren't really doing anything. I go into my office every day that I'm in Brighton and work. Whether I feel like it or not is irrelevant.

I can weep pretty easily. I can get tears in my eyes from a beautiful work of art.

Writing is a consciousness formally at work in the territory of the imaginary.

If we but give it time, a work of art 'can rap and knock and enter our souls' and re-align us - all our molecules - to make us whole again.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.