Page McConnell Quotes

To be honest, I'm like a sponge so my inspiration and influences really can come from anywhere.

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

All this talk about inspiration and moment is nonsense.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

I now know that inspirations must come from everywhere.

I get inspired by many different things.

Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

I think I've always been slightly addicted to not repeating myself. When you're doing something the first time around, it's often the best time. I think 'Blank Project' is about carrying on. Its that thing where you're making something because you have to, but you don't know how or why.

I get inspired at different times and in different ways.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

Inspiration comes from all different places.

In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.

People often ask where I get my inspiration from, and I always say I have no good answer because, well, inspiration comes from everywhere: people, places, memories.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

You don't actually have ideas; ideas have you.

One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.

You can't rush inspiration.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' Well, on the first place, I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea, it's too limiting and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop. At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed. A lot of people try to think up ideas. I'm not one. I'd rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can't ignore.

You never know where inspiration is going to come from.

I'm never short of inspiration. There are always new ideas - and new adventures.

You never know where you're going to get inspiration.

Curiosity is a great weapon for the artist.