logo

Quotes About Inspiration

The caliber of actors I'm getting to work with and learn from on a daily basis is phenomenal for me as a developing actor.
~ Graham Phillips
A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.
~ Gregory Heisler
I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.
~ Grimes
I like being free to take on any project that inspires me and to trust that the work will speak for itself.
~ Gugu Mbatha-Raw
With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.
~ Guido Palau
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost
~ Guillermo Cabrera Infante
It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.
~ Guillermo Diaz
As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.
~ Gwyneth Paltrow
We're using our creativity to learn how to work with Divine Spirit, how to come into harmony with life around us.
~ Harold Klemp
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
~ Harrison Birtwistle
I look for something that grabs me and that's heartfelt, and that's coming from a good place. I want to work with good actors and with directors that I can learn from.
~ Harry Treadaway
I generally concentrate on work for three or four hours every morning. I sit at my desk and focus totally on what I'm writing. I don't see anything else, I don't think about anything else.
~ Haruki Murakami
I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.
~ Heather Donahue
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
~ Henry David Thoreau
In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.
~ Henry Ian Cusick
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
~ Henry Miller
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.
~ Henry Rollins
Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.
~ Henry Rollins
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
~ Henry Rollins
O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.
~ Honore de Balzac
Imagination helps the realism of every detail, and only sees the beauties of the work.
~ Honore de Balzac
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
~ Honore de Balzac