Quotes About Inspiration

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

If you want to make [your own way in music] it as a player, which is very difficult, as Art Blakey said to me, "We're blessed to have the opportunity to do this." So just keep that in mind.

I remember Art Blakey saying to me, "Just remember, we're blessed to do what we do."

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?

It's essential for me to be working on a nonfiction sort of research project simultaneous with multiple projects that are in different realms of art practice or not.

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet.

Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.

Everyone should be able to make art about ideas without getting cornered into self-art.

I think comedy and music are both things that we need as human beings. I think that both art forms can touch people.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

I went to the Brit School for the performing arts in Croydon at 14, picking music as my main subject, and I'm so glad I did. I knew lots of people who'd gone there, so I always had my mind set on it.