Tara Stiles Quotes

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

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.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

Sometimes, you don't know where your inspiration's going to come from.

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 ever a rational process.

The creative process is mysterious; a conversation, a ride in the car, or a melody can trigger something.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'

My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

You can't rush inspiration.

Inspiration comes and goes when it pleases. It's independent of our desires, doesn't respond well to force, and refuses to be controlled.

There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it, you know that's what it is. It's magic.

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

I always look for inspiration. If I find something that's inspiring, I'm so excited because it is very hard to find something inspiring.

Inspiration can really strike from anywhere.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.