Sigrid Quotes

I feel like I'm the most creative when I'm bored.

I get inspired by many different things.

I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration.

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

I truly find inspiration everywhere. I always tell students, and young people starting out, that the single most important skill, next to listening, is to pay attention. You never know where inspiration will strike.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

I shall always be able to come up with new fantasies. As long as there are people walking around in the street, as long as I have books to read and windows to look out of, I'm not going to use them up.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

Inspiration comes from the world around me. I'm an inveterate eavesdropper.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.

You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

It is hazardous to discourage thought, hope or imagination …