Quotes About Inspiration

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from a definite sensory experience.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

I have wanted to write from a young age, but working with so many gifted authors and editors over the years has taught me so much. I doubt I would be where I am today without that amazing experience.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

My experience at the 1992 Winter Olympics was my fulfillment of dreaming the Impossible Dream.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

You start seeing all of the athlete profiles on NBC, and whenever the Summer Olympics come up, I feel like I share the same experience with the Summer Olympians.

I loved Herman's Head. And it was a great experience

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.