Quotes about Inspiration

I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell's 'Both Sides Now' was the first song I learned.

I love how music and fashion are so similar. We need each other.

I let Brel into my world. What I like about him is the simplicity of his language. It's not so simple to be simple.

If you're are paralyzed with fear it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.

she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work.

The drawing is also a reminder that there's an artist within each of us, and we must encourage that artist to do the work, to make something that matters, regardless of anything else that is going on.

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.