Quotes About Inspiration

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion.

I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain.

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

Sometimes it is the emotional experience of film and television that bring a cause to our hearts and stir us to action - they inform and inspire.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Without emotional content we make pictures; with it, we create art.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Writing the songs is always emotional and most of the vocals on there are the first three takes from the demos, because they give so much more. You're in that moment, so it speaks for itself.

While medicine creates material for writing, perhaps even more important is that it also creates a psychological and emotional need to write.

In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.