Richard Bach Quotes

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.

The reason I could last for that long a period of being up was because the piece accidentally caught the excitement and adrenaline from, "Ooh this sounds different from usual... Ooh I like that..." That was the energy that kept me up.

Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.

I just have a gut feeling about something, if I really want to do it, if I'm excited about it, if I want to explore it. And that goes across all different sorts of genres.

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

I can get excitement watching rain on a puddle. And then I paint it. Now, I admit, there are not too many people who would find that exciting. But I would. And I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

I trust my judgment when I think it's boring, dull, tepid and not interesting. That's important to listen to. And the same on the set. That's a little easier because you can see it in front of you and you can just see how great they are and you know you have something wonderful when they do something wonderful.

If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.

Poetry is fired by love.

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful.