Christopher Morley Quotes

Hunger is the handmaid of genius.

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive.

Music is something that you really have to want to do it, and there has to be a reason behind it.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

The belly (i.e. necessity) is the teacher of art and the liberal bestower of wit.

Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. -Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Beautiful. True. Words to remind yourself, words to live by.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

At the very beginning, it's a desire and that's not the same thing at all, because when you have the desire to do something, all the work you can do is a positive thing. It's not something that you calculate. An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. The immersion, it's classical, I watched a lot of movies.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

I get inspired with passion, I think. I get inspired by people who are just passionate, and it doesn't matter what they do or what they're passionate about.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great.