Quotes About Inspiration

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

I always had that desire to become a great athlete.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

Great art must be a living thing, or it is not art at all.

It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.

Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.