Quotes About Inspiration

I can't imagine writing a screenplay where I didn't feel deeply connected at some kind of visceral level to the material.

I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

It's all well and good to turn in a beautiful poetic phrase that ends up on a pillow but I want there to be a visceral response to what I write.

I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.

Drag Race' is giving visibility to our community. It's on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that's an amazing thing.

Danica Patrick, even if she was not super successful results-wise, did a lot for our sport and its visibility. That was an element that fans really did appreciate, and it brought some awareness and different eyes to out sport.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.

This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film.

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.

What I've discovered and try to integrate into my show is when you're up there, and you are loud and more visible, you're setting a tone for how people can behave and how they can feel comfortable behaving.

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the unexpected and, with luck, of the unexpectable.

I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.

Visible success is important. It's important to be able to look on the TV and see yourself, turn on the radio and hear yourself. To see people from where you're from actually becoming successful.

Respectable transwomen were not as visible and very unclear in how they defined themselves. I had no one to look up to, pre-transition.

The truth is, the less a subject had to do with the visible world, the more talented I was at solving problems.

A design that I create is like my own extension. It's 'thinking made visible.'

Hindi cinema needs to make working women and women of substance more visible.

As I reflect on my own journey, I knew it was important for me to be visible so other people wouldn't have to struggle as I did.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.