Quotes About Inspiration

Grant that I may experience the power of Thy Word before I deliver it.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience.

Little moments attach themselves to other little moments and collect into big dreams. We become what we experience.

You can have the right kind of experience and the wrong kind of experience. Mine is rooted in the real lives of real people, and it will bring real results if we have the courage to change.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

For me, the more I live, the more I need to write. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

I never demonstrate how art should be made or what the outcome should look like. Instead, give kids the tools and the materials to make their own art. Have them experience the process.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look at his or her work is the shared experience of having pushed paint around.

It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

I like the idea of collaboration - it pushes you. It's a richer experience.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.