Quotes About Inspiration

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

When I do a film, usually I work from my director. That's my boss. The director is interpreting the writer's vision, and we all interpret it, and they create their own vision as well.

I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.

I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

My idol when I was growing up was Michael Jordan the basketball player because of his work ethic rather than his talent and because of what he went through to be as good as he was.

I try to offer as much as I can to the director so he has as much to work with as possible to create the character that, really, he wants to create in a sense.

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!

It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

If no ones doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.

This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never bother to breathe again.

I work whenever I'm let.

I don't believe other people are ever as foolishly excited as I am while I'm working. How could they be? Writers would have to live in trees.

a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.

Greg Berlanti, David Nutter, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are the people I wanted to work with. They're smart, they're funny, they're cool, they're edgy.

Poetry is God's work.

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.

I'm fully capable of multitasking certain conceptual concerns within the work.

In the end I'm in love with it [Western European easel painting]. And that's where a lot of the influence from the work comes from.

I've met others [people] who simply responded to me, "You're Kehinde Wiley. I know your work. I saw it at the Brooklyn Museum [Brooklyn, NY] And I'd be honored to be in your work."

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.