Quotes About Inspiration

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

In terms of legend, people do have a need, but I think you can't have a legend without the work or the art that comes before it.

When work resonates with a person, whether it is literature or film or music, then they want to know more about the artist. That's very natural.

I only work on my books at nights and at weekends. It is really just like a hobby.

If I physically made every work myself, I would get only one or two paintings done a year, if that.

To me, making records isn't work.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

Guillermo del Toro. He's in his pure artist's stroke. He's just hitting it out of the park. I would go anywhere to work with him. He's a real artist.

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

My role models are Bettie Page and Mia Kirshner. Every day when Mia comes to work she raises the bar for us all.

If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.

It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate.

When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

There are so many great directors that I haven't worked with and that I would love to work with.

Deep play precedes deep work.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more of a story.

Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything, I just knew that I loved dancing.

What actor wouldn't want to work with Mel Gibson?

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.