If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
Robert Motherwell

If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
Utada Hikaru

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
Adam Schiff

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Larry Niven

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Tony Robbins

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Lukas Foss

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.
Jon Stewart

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.
John Updike

Inspiration comes from all different places.
Jeffrey Katzenberg

Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Baudelaire

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Ned Rorem

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.
Joan Armatrading

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
Pablo Picasso

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
Arthur Erickson

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Jean Anouilh

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.
Giacomo Puccini

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.
Franz Liszt

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
Ram Dass

Inspiration is one thing and you can't control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.
Kevin Eubanks