Quotes About Inspiration

Listen to other people. Respect the other people in the band, and work together to create something that is larger than the sum of its parts. And have fun.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

I really want to work with Rufus Wainwright. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. I would love to work with Kanye West.

I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

When you're in the studio, you've got a narrative for what goes on, you might switch on a bit of gear and it might not work as you intended or come out a bit wrong, and you try and exploit it.

When you work on a computer in the studio, it's almost like fossilizing on the spot, you know, the idea of getting solidified on the spot, like a snowflake might create branches by accumulation.

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

Agnes Martin is a big influence in my work actually, when I first saw her, these fine grids.

I've always said my biggest influence is my, just, the last work I did, the last piece I made.

I work sometimes with dealers and sometimes people just come to me. A lot of the commissions, they just know me. They have seen something and they just approach me.

I'm always looking for relations between my work and the old masters.

I always took photographs. I photographed a lot of trees, by the way, which is another image I used often in my work, the tree image.

Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

You turn your life into a work of art in order to redeem the ordinariness - a condition you are stuck with.

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.