Inspiration Quotes

Jack Kerouac died after throwing up blood. The malt liquor. Then that other guy who shot his wife in the head. Burroughs somebody. And I wonder about literary figures. They're all drunk and staggering and haunting people today, I bet, still muttering and ranting in disassociated lines.Or, I'm wondering about a middle ground with wooly blankets and nubbly cardigans and nobody shot in the head. Where yes, you are uniquely mad. But functionally uniquely mad. Endlessly absorbed but in the mildly scattered kind of way instead of in the crap-I-shot-my-wife-in-the-head kind of way. Unable to dedicate to another human being only in occasional fits.Roald Dahl says you're a fool to become a writer, your only compensation being absolute freedom but then I'm not so sure about that. He bought a wagon from a Romanian gypsy and his kids played in it and I think he had more in the way of compensation than absolute freedom. He's got a point, though, even if he reached a point where his own point no longer applied to him. He had no master except his own soul, and that, he was sure, was why he did it.

~ Kate Inglis

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

~ Eric Maisel

Music itself has taught me never to underestimate a mistake, for, in the midst of all, it’s often in that mistake where the realm of the unexpected creation is hidden.

~ Anna Jae

When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless.

~ Ed Catmull

Give a hundred writers the same idea and you'll get a hundred different stories.

~ Joy Fielding

Originality of mind untainted,And enthusiasm for life, unlimited.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.

~ David Duchemin

Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom

~ Jennifer Sodini

There are no rules to creativity.

~ Laura Jaworski

Sitting to think of what to write will only set your ass on fire, give you headache, twist your face to look stupid, instead, walk around with a blank mind and something from somewhere will fill it up.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Writers and artists know that ethereal moment, when just one, fleeting something--a chill, an echo, the click of a lamp, a question—-ignites the flame of an entire work that blazes suddenly into consciousness.

~ Nadine C. Keels

The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own.

~ Lewis Hyde The Gift

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can't always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create this new thing- this painting, this story, this song. If you break art down to its base elements, there's nothing miraculous about the letters of the alphabet or a drop of paint. But an artist can put those elements together to create something powerful, something that moves us and withstands the test of time. A work that no one but that artist could have imagined, let alone created.

~ Sarah Cross

No one can take credit for inspiration or creativity.

~ Ron Brackin

Ideas doesn't make anyone rich, it is what you use it to do that makes you rich.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?

~ Shelley K. Wall

That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

~ Amit Kalantri

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

The simple everyday experiences become the doorway to new thoughts and inspirations.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Remember that your fans are your lifeblood. See that you know who they are, and give them a reason to follow you. Be sure to thank them, often, for caring enough to support you. They’re responsible for your success just as much as you are.

~ Simon Zingerman

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

~ Richie Norton

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

~ Simon Zingerman

This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.

~ Simon Zingerman

There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true that the new tastemakers are us.

~ Simon Zingerman

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

~ Simon Zingerman

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.

~ Michael Houbrick

It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.

~ Simon Zingerman

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist.

~ Simon Zingerman

As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.

~ Simon Zingerman

You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be loved in its particularity, not its generality, but for its universal life in every minute particular. I have always supposed it to be a cry of ;unsatisfied love; - and so it may be indeed - for satisfaction may surfeit it and so it may die. I know many poets who write only when in an exalted state of mind which they compare to ;being in love;when they do not simply state, that they are in love, that they seek love - for this fresh damsel - or that lively young woman - in order to find a fresh metaphor, or a new bright vision of things in themselves. And to tell you the truth, I have always believed I could diagnose this state of ;being in love; which they regard as ;most particular; as inspired by item, one pair of black eyes or indifferent blue, ;item; one graceful attitude of body or mind, ;item; one female history of some twenty-two years from, shall we say 1821-1844 – I have always believed this ;in love; to be of something of the most abstract masking itself under the particular forms of both lover and beloved. And Poet who assumes and informs both.

~ A.s. Byatt

What we at first deem useless might end up being the next bestseller. It can be the product's novelty, fun factor or sheer stupidity. Whatever the case, just remember there's always room on the market for an original business idea.

~ Simon Zingerman

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

~ Georges Braque

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

~ Simon Zingerman

Hallo, Pooh,” said Rabbit.“Hallo, Rabbit,” said Pooh dreamily.“Did you make that song up?”“Well, I sort of made it up,” said Pooh. “It isn’t Brain,” he went on humbly, “because You Know Why, Rabbit; but it comes to me sometimes.”“Ah!” said Rabbit, who never let things come to him, but always went and fetched them.

~ A.a. Milne

For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.

~ Helen Keller

God is the creator, so for that human creativity is a work of Divine.

~ Petra Remes

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

~ Cynthia Sue Larson