Top 1200 Creative Inspiration Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

People either make things or they don't. Inspiration is a poster.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

When you write a novel or paint a picture, you have the opportunity to approach it and back off, tear up pages, write, rewrite, paint over, and come back to it. In film, once you start shooting, you can't restart the clock, and you keep moving forward, and you don't look back, and you don't go back. And that is, of course, antithetical to the creative process. It's really hard to generate a comfortable creative flow under that kind of pressure.

Waiting for inspiration is for amateurs; professionals get to work.

Artists have always been my biggest source of inspiration.

Michael Jackson was my inspiration. Love and blessings.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

When I was younger, I didn't have any inspiration to like the skin I was in.

I find inspiration in literally just about everything.

My greatest inspiration is my Chinese and Jewish heritage and my travels.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Traveling is also a big inspiration for me.

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

The success of every single woman is the inspiration for another.

Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.

If we have come up with a creative decision and somebody comes up with another idea, you do have to get into the depths of it and ask: "Is it a better idea? Or is it a different idea?" That can be hard. But that's the type of conversation the director and I will have, or as part of our creative groups. So with that in mind, it's hard to keep a budget in line. It's like in life, if you've ever built anything for the first time you're usually better at it the second time.

Beckham was a great inspiration to me growing up.

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

Michelle Kwan was an inspiration for everyone, including me.

Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to you, but you must not rely upon thought alone, paying no attention to personal action. That is the rock upon which many otherwise scientific metaphysical thinkers meet shipwreck–the failure to connect thought with personal action.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration

I get most of my inspiration from anime and video games.

To be someone's inspiration is the biggest goal in my life.

Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I like Daniel Alves, I have him as my inspiration.

I have always said that my inspiration is society, the world we live in.

You don't think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.

Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.

I think I get inspiration from places where I see nature.

Everyone's looking to the urban scene for inspiration now.

Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.

I always come back to Inglewood for inspiration when I need it.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

The spirit of celebration and togetherness is a great source of inspiration.

Information doesn't mean a thing to people without inspiration.

With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.

Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.

Periodically, I return to the classics for inspiration and refreshment.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

I've actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.

When we get the inspiration from Heave to do something. We do it now. We don't procrastinate.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I'm Bob's son. He's my inspiration. What can I give back to the community?

I get my fuel and inspiration from children, they are our future.

He's been an inspiration for me since the Olympics 1996.

I think sometimes it's the things you don't like that give you inspiration.

Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes.

I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.

I value teaching. It's one of the places I get inspiration, engagement.

It's weird: I don't really know where I pull my inspiration from. I think it's N.E.R.D.

I draw a lot of inspiration from different time periods.