Quotes about Inspiration

You need to trust yourself, especially on a first draft, where amid the anxiety and self-doubt, there should be a real sense of your imagination and your memories walking and woolgathering, tramping the hills, romping all over the place. Trust them. Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

So I'd start writing without reining myself in. It was almost just typing, just making my fingers move. And the writing would be terrible.

What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

Great teachers are wonderful. They change lives. We need them. The problem is that most schools don't like great teachers. They're organized to stamp them out, bore them, bureaucratize them, and make them average. Why

A movement is thrilling. It's the work of many people, all connected, all seeking something better.