Philip Gilbert Hamerton Quotes

Talent works, genius creates.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.

The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing.

Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work.

I have a lot of sketches and ideas, but when you don't use them, they get stale.

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

If you're waiting for inspiration, you'll wait until you're dead.

The only thing I know for sure about the creative process is it always comes back. Magically. When there are no creative juices and nothing is coming to me - if I wait - it comes!

In my mind, I'm doing everything, but in reality, I'm doing very, very little. You come up with one idea, one moment, one line that leads to something and you feel like it's easy. And then, you sit back and think there would be no show without that.

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

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.

If you're not creating, you're waiting.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

Inspiration and creativity, they ride right next to one anotherNot everyday are you going to wake up, the clouds are gonna part and the rays are gonna come downsometimes you gotta just get in there and force yourself to work and maybe something good will come out of it.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.