I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.
I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
There are so many talented actors in my contemporaries and my seniors... I seek inspiration from each one of them.
Revelations are conveyed in a variety of ways, including, for example, dreams, visions, conversations with heavenly messengers, and inspiration. Some revelations are received immediately and intensely; some are recognized gradually and subtly.
I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political philosophy through an immensely popular novel.
A cookery book should be there for inspiration. Recipes should be a guideline, and they shouldn't be cast in stone.
There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer.
I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.
Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.
