Quotes About Inspiration

You need the art in order to love the life.

loves it, in fact, as much as anything she has ever done. After the brain deadening years of child-rearing, she feels like she is waking up, feels as if her mind is stirring after a long sleep, spluttering and juddering into motion. She enjoys the hours spent in the red light of the darkroom too, thrills (more than she

Something about being overwhelmed, just momentarily, by the beauty of existence.

Sleep well. Wake inspired.

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

But she would always tell herself, Who needs friends, when you have books.

Who needs friends, when you have books,

I decided i want to be a manga artist when i grow up. If you want to know why, it's because of you. I know that you hurt a lot inside. An I know that manga makes you happy. If i can make manga, maybe I can help people like you be happy.

Music not only saved my life, it gave me a life

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect her from influences that may offend her fragile nature. She comes to me with the gift of song and in return I treat her with the respect I feel she deserves — in this case this means not subjecting her to the indignities of judgement and competition.

I've got some words of wisdom.

I saw a sick man pick up his instrument and be well

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts babe we know it, that you weren't much of a muse, but then, I weren't much of a poet.

Do you want to know how to write a song? Songwriting is about counterpoint. Counterpoint is the key - putting two disparate images beside each other and seeing which way the sparks fly. Like letting a small child in the same room as, I don't know, a Mongolian psychopath or something, and just sitting back and seeing what happens. Then you send in a clown, say, on a tricycle and again you wait and you watch. And if that doesn't do it, you shoot the clown.

You ain't got no self-respect, you feel like an insect Well don't you worry buddy, cause here he comes

You have to operate, at least some of the time, in the world of mystery, beneath that great and terrifying cloud of artistic unknowing

I'd say, be careful what you wish for; certitude is seldom good for creativity.

And she moves among the sparrows. And she floats upon the breeze. She moves among the flowers. She moves something deep inside of me

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.