“Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.” KnowsTryingInspirationMotivationWaitingPainterOver YouRoofRoof Over Your Head Author:Nita Engle
“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 might have been the ripe period of his art he had nothing left but ideas. A man who has nothing left but ideas may be of great service to his friends, but he is of no use at all to himself. Emile was certainly an inspiration to his friends.” MenMayHas BeensArtIdeasUseInspirationMightEnergyLeftYouthPaintingPeriodsSaintPainterMight Have BeenRipeLivelyVersatileGreat Service Author:Laura Riding
“Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour, rather than as a bolt out of the blue. We have to get our vanities and our preconceptions out of the way and do the work in the time allotted.” WayInspirationHoursBluePainterVanityLabourComposerBoltsSculptorsPreconceptions Author:John Towner Williams
“If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.” IfsStoriesHomeInspirationBeautifulSceneMusicianPaintPainterSoundtracks Author:Claudio Simonetti
“I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali.” ThinkingStatesInspirationInspireSourceEasierConstantSticksPhotographerPainterItalianSelectMedievalFluxBaroqueSource Of InspirationCinematographers Author:Anton Yelchin
“The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and - well, it's just a lot of painters and artists and filmmakers all within that scene, and it's very, very important to me.” WellsImportantInspirationFilmArtistStreetsStyleNew YorkHugeScenePainterFilmmakerPunkGuerrillas Author:Jim Jarmusch