Grant Achatz Quotes

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Well mostly in song writing my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

There's nothing romantic about my work... I don't believe in inspiration. I believe that you get to your desk, you stay there, you work, you think of nothing else. You write and you write, and in the end, you write something good.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

I find the light and work it, work it, work it.

Despite all of our technological advances, content creation still requires time, inspiration, and a certain amount of sweat. There aren't any shortcuts. You can't write an algorithm for it. You can't predict it. You can't code it.

I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.