Quotes About Inspiration

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

I am my own muse, the subject I know best.

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.

I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.

We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

What you need to have is that link between your education and what you do. Make creativity part of the subject.

I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

I never know what it's going to look like. Wouldn't be much point in painting if I already knew the outcome. I have a subject in front of me and I start flooding colour and making marks, I don't know, it's improvisation isn't it?

No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a forensic subject. It's poetry; it's a completely different place.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

Some people make movies for money or glory and will take any subject people offer them. But I cannot do that. I need to feel the story and make it mine.

With my students, I always have to sell my subject because I know when you're 19, 20 years old, you've got other things on your mind besides American history. What I have to do is make this as compelling as possible.

Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.

Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

I am only 30, and music is like a subject for me. I work like a student in every film.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.