Quotes About Inspiration

You only have to talk to artists to see that they work according to rules, and that they know all too well that they can employ only certain means to achieve the ends they want.

The next best thing is to work with those who are not quite there yet to bring them up to that level.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

Not every work of art is or need be a heavily profound statement.

What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.

A big 'thank you' to George Demetrion for helping readers see that the center does hold. A wise and winsome work.

Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece.

I develop my own film. And I work in spurts. I pile it up.

Aside from women, I don't know. My work doesn't function the way Robert Frank's did.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.

If you keep pushing paint when you're tired of it, you lose sensitivity. I can only focus on painting for a few hours, so I'll stop and work on something quite different.

I think an actor can actually gather moments, memories and emotions for his next character. So, it's a constant work.

I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

My taking pictures means I'm taking a series of pictures which become an essay and then get extended into a book. That's what's exciting, to take an idea and work it through to completion.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

The greatest thing about writing a book is that at first it's all inchoate, but the more you work on it, the more the book teaches you its internal rules.

The idea is that what an artist lives through should broaden his notion of what it is possible for a human being to live through, and that new understanding should then get into and expand the work.