Quotes about Inspiration
Art isn't meaningless. - It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. - In other words, Dick, you're playing before a grandstand peopled with ghosts. - Give a good show anyhow. - On the contrary, I'd feel, it being a meaningless world, why write? The very attempt to give it purpose is purposeless. Well, even admitting all that, be a decent pragmatist and grant a poor man the instinct to live. Would you want everyone to accept that sophistic rot?
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
— Nikki Giovanni
I'm a fan of coaching.
— Sean McVay
My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.
— Sridevi
Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
— Lady Gaga
The second series is always my favourite as a writer/director; you can hit the ground running... so that's fun.
— Ricky Gervais
At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
— Isabel Allende
A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff.
— Bo Burnham
My first love will always be fitness, so I want to share that with as many people as I can.
— Mandy Rose
Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.
— Maya Angelou
Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.
— Jay-Z