Quotes About Inspiration

All my work is created from personal experiences. My hope is always that others will see it as a gateway, develop their own message and feel a part of the art.

Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

My little boy (Sasha) is now one-year-old and that makes it easier for me to go back to the studio and work on creating new music.

There are no personal revelations other than feelings arising from the work itself

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

The best work that I am able to do is when I am willing to write about questions I haven't quite figured out, or things I'm really wrestling with, things that keep me up at night.

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee.

Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work.

My work is inspired by my passion for human rights issues and the environment, and by my love of family, music and nature.

Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

Sad songs seem to work for me, but I don't want to be redundant; I want to add a little flavor.

I got this idea of doing a really serious big work-it would be precisely like a novel, with a single difference: Every word of it would be true from beginning to end.

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

I would love to work with Bill Murray. I've always been such a big fan. I think he's obviously a great comedic actor but a really interesting actor.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.