Quotes About Inspiration

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

I'm not trying to convince anybody of anything. I just want (the audience) to have an experience that moves them.

I believe that the people are looking for a leader who has experience, who has courage, who has vision.

Writers . . . write to give reality to experience.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.

I made The Instigator while I was homeless as a result of 9/11, and there was some stuff on there that was really raw and directly out of that experience

I'm not writing just classic-sounding songs, but songs that come from experience.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.