Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

I don't meditate in any formal way, but I often lie in bed or find myself in nature and enter into that state of quiet where I get images, feelings, or melodies.

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

Ideas for songs can come from something as simple as a photograph and letting my imagination run wild on an old photograph that I found, or to a film that I have seen or to just most of the time, just daily walking through life and keeping your eyes open.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.

People think that because of my act that I must have a really busy mind and I must be driven. I really am not. I quite like going outside and looking at spiders on a hedge in my garden and stuff.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

Night is the mother of thoughts.

I'm never bored, never ever bored. If I've got a day off I'll sit in a cafe and watch and observe. I'm a great observer.

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it's because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.

An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place.