Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the ans….

The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregu….

There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of….

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration..

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year..

Strength of my heart, I need not fail, Not mind to fear but to obey, With such a Leader, who could quail? Thou art as Thou wert yesterday. Strength o….

Emile Saint-Blague had been a lively, versatile painter in his youth, but he had abused his energy by painting too many pictures; so that in what mig….

The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of ….

Out of my entire annual output of songs, perhaps two, or at the most three, came as a result of inspiration. We can never rely on inspiration. When w….

Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly….

The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the count….

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration..

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend..

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it..

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

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspi….

Why do people watch fights?... They watch it for inspiration..

From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own n….

One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a tal….

There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing th….

I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result o….