Believe Quote by Chuck Close

I don't believe in the word 'inspiration', you just have to do it.

— Will Alsop

I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.

— Chuck Close

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and…

— Chuck Jones

Inspiration can be found in a pile of junk. Sometimes, you can put it together with a good imagination and invent something.

— Thomas A. Edison

I don't believe in inspiration. I believe in work, because while one works one's creativity is opened.

— Giacomo Manzu

I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.

— William Faulkner

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

— Beatrice Wood

Inspiration is an excuse for doing something you already want to do.

— Lauren Kate

Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not; it is a gift…

— Elaine de Kooning

The greatest source of inspiration is hard work. Of course, I also believe in inspiration itself, but sometimes you have to provoke it, call…

— Joaquin Rodrigo

So-called "inspiration" is no more than an extreme example of a process which constantly goes on in the minds of all of us.

— Anthony Storr

To me, the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is, inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's…

— Julia Leigh