Devin Townsend Quotes

After it's finished, sometimes I can trace a path that goes back to the possible source of inspiration.

Everybody knows that I don't have a muse. I'm not interested in that.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

People often ask writers where they get their inspiration, and for me, the short answer is that I haven't a clue; I'm just grateful that I get them.

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.

Great art inspires great art.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

From a design perspective, the U.S. has always been a great source of inspiration for me.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

I don't really care who gets their inspiration from where, it's the end results that count.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.

I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his discovery or poem or picture - that it came to him from outside, and that he did not consciously create it from within.

I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

There's music every day. I don't think I could write without it. Not that I listen while I'm writing. It's more hearing a piece of music that I want to somehow convert into prose, as a creative inspiration.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

When I hear somebody like Hayes Carll write a song that's touching and poignant and sad and funny all at the same time, it motivates me to step my game up and try to figure out a way to get more different emotions into one line or one song.