Quotes About Inspiration

My motivation comes from a desire to make a difference in the quality of people's lives.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

You can become a great creator or a little one as the intensity of your desire is little or great.

The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

When the creative spirit stirs, it animates a style of being: a lifetime filled with the desire to innovate, to explore new ways of doing things, to bring dreams to reality.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

The power has to be in your desire to see everyone thrive.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.