Quotes About Inspiration

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

Desire is the key to motivation.

The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's consciousness from its primary source.

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

The desire to reach hearts is wise

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Live each moment from your own inspiration, not from your desire to look good in the eyes of others.