Maria Canals Barrera Quotes

I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'

The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.

When I'm writing, my mood is very good - and I love life.

I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

I love art. It really changes my mood and wakes me up.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.

I read a lot of social history. If I'm in an art gallery and a picture intrigues me, I immediately write down the title and I google it. I do a lot of googling and looking out for good stories. I can almost smell them sometimes.

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.

You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.

I know,I can smell it, too.

The air was heavy with the smell of leather and dust, of old parchment and binding glue. It smelled of secrets.

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.

Once you've found your own voice, the choice to expand your influence, to increase your contribution, is the choice to inspire others to find their voice.

He leaned over to kiss the top of my head, and then groaned. I looked at him, puzzled. "You smell so good in the rain," he explained. "In a good way, or in a bad way?" I asked cautiously. He sighed. "Both, always both.

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.