Quotes About Inspiration

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

I don't see myself as a moviemaker only, you know? When I can do a picture, I do. But I don't work like a business, in pictures. I am not obliged to make one picture after the other in order to live.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.

A lot of my work is a matter of reacting to surprises in life.

Work is an opportunity to bring something forth-to create something, complete something, invent something authentic and original.

Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.

Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgement is that the new ideas shall look like the old ones. In other words it can only work by suppressing originality.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

The longer we work on the show, the more the writers just start surprising you.

I worked with Cameron Crowe, and Id love to work with him again.

I don't typically work that late into the night in a studio, I'm more productive during the day.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.

The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book.