Quotes About Inspiration

A good title is a work of a genius!

My beats are pretty s - - y, though. I don't know how they work.

My work as a painter has always been tied to Modernism. I read everything I could find related to art, from Paul Cézanne through the 1950s.

My favorite time is late at night. I seem to wake up and want to work after 10pm, in my bubble of night.

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.

What I like doing these days is spending more time with coaches because I think it's important to work on yourself.

I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.

It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't.

Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

I do want to work on a larger scale with bigger budgets partially as a way to prove that women can do that, for sure. I definitely feel a bit of a responsibility to do that.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

If I pull from places of faith, joy and gratitude, then I have the wind of creativity behind me. And, my work in the world is much more effective.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

The Quartets have been a major part of my work.