Quotes About Inspiration

The Full Measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.

We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

Hitler knew nothing about his enemies and even refused to use the information that was available to him. Instead, he trusted his inspirations, no matter how inherently contradictory they may be and these inspirations were governed by extreme contempt and underestimation of the others.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

I don't bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have color But with less perfection in my way of expressing myself Because I lack the divine simplicity Of wholly being only my exterior. I see and I'm moved, Moved the way water runs when the ground is sloping And what I write is as natural as the rising wind...

Fue un parto», dicen los que no saben o los que creen que el arte real surge del sufrimiento. Para sufrir y pasarlo mal no hay que ser artista; todos más o menos sufren y saben cómo curarse.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography.

Los mejores escritores tienen una única obra, que las escriben en veinticinco libros o lo que vos quieras, pero, es una sola obra.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.

L'art rallume toujours les lumières du paradis perdu