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Quotes About Inspiration

... man cannot help but transcend himself as soon as he begins to design and construct.
~ Samuel Florman
So much of design is context.
~ Steve Madden
Often we don't see the majesty of God's design because we're caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
~ Charles Eames
I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.
~ Aldis Hodge
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
~ Alice Waters
Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.
~ Claude Monet
You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!
~ Reinhard Bonnke
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.
~ Peter Brook
All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.
~ Michael Chekhov
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
~ Ayn Rand
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
~ John C. Maxwell
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
~ W. Clement Stone
Someday I'll wish upon a star.
~ Yip Harburg
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
~ Unknown
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
~ Mike Figgis
I don't want realism. I want magic!
~ Tennessee Williams
Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
~ Eliel Saarinen
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
~ Bruce Lee
What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them
~ Unknown
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
~ Timothy Keller
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
~ Carl Andre