Quotes About Inspiration

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Art that arises out of the inner landscape, and is connected to our lived experience, illuminates the darkness and heals the soul.

Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.

Originality is the only thing that counts. But the originator uses material and ideas that occur round him and pass through him. And out of his experience comes the original creation.

Everything I experience influences everything I do.

Art is not about understanding, it's about experience.

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

It is the function of art to carry us beyond speech to experience.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting.

At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.