Collective Inspiration Quotes

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.

Your best players have to unite and inspire the group... otherwise, they'll divide the group

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.

I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.

I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I think television goes through phases, like other creative arts, where suddenly a group of people are producing exciting work all at once.

The Kollection is a complete mix of Kim, Khloe and I - each of our individual styles are reflected, and that has been the way we have always designed. We are constantly emailing each other with ideas - three minds are better than one sometimes.

I regard the people as a great being, inspired by a single idea. This is my problem. I strove to solve it in this opera.