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Quotes About Inspiration

I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.
~ Vilmos Zsigmond
If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.
~ Viola Davis
I am not a writer, but I feel that when our production company is successful, we'll be able to give some young writers with fresh voices an opportunity to put their work out there.
~ Viola Davis
I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.
~ Virginia Woolf
If you create good work, people should be interested.
~ Visionist
I don't know if memoirs can produce literary work of the first order. But I do know that novels are doing it only rarely.
~ Vivian Gornick
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
~ W. Somerset Maugham
My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.
~ Walt Whitman
I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.
~ Warren Buffett
Great leaders love talent and know where to find it. They surround themselves with talented people who can work effectively together.
~ Warren G. Bennis
[My pots ] are not like [Hans] Coper's at all, but the idea came from seeing catalogue of his work, although at the time we knew Hans, his work was nothing like that.
~ Warren MacKenzie
I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.
~ Warren MacKenzie
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
~ WASHINGTON ALLSTON
You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.
~ Wayne Dyer
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
~ Wendell Berry
If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work
~ Wendy Beckett
I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.
~ Werner Herzog
I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing things that are farther away.
~ Whit Stillman
Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.
~ Wilferd Peterson
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.
~ Will Self
I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.
~ Will Smith