Quotes About Inspiration

Body experience... is the centre of creation.

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded by the uninspired journeyman.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

I really didn't know who Dario [Argento] was. I didn't know who Harvey Keitel was. It was a wonderful experience, though.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

Art is not an object, but a trigger for experience.

I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.

I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm praying that I'll have a few more good years left to me.

I try to sing and not worry about what's going to happen after I do. I'd add that in my experience, as a person who went to see singers, some people helped me to make some decisions about the world.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

Creativity is the very source and the wonder of your experience.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.

I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.