Quotes About Inspiration

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition, I can do little else in my present position.

Competition is the death of art.

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

I shall hear in heaven.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

Death doesn't frighten me.

Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.

Didacticism is the death of art.

Acceptance spells death to a writer.

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.