Quotes About Inspiration

I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good.

When I've met people that work in any walk of life they say, "If it wasn't for punk I wouldn't be doing it this way." I think spiritually, it did change the world a lot.

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

For me, music makes my smile brighter during my workouts. It adds that extra something that motivates me to go further or work harder!

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

We have to wake up early and make songs everyday. I run my record label. You work at hours where your body isn't designed to work. But it's fun.

I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

I thought I would attend school and get an assistant position and work my way up but being in NY and seeing the pace of everything, is very inspiring.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

I don't hate being compared with female musicians. I don't mind that at all. I have no problem with seeing connections between women's work.

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original.

Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.