Quotes About Inspiration

La verdadera misión del arte es sanar, y sanar es descubrir la belleza de nuestra alma.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee for a good part of his life, until the day he decided he was an artist. That day he left the bank and became a genius painter.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en los pardos terciopelos de la falena, y entonces se sabrá con asombro que cada caracol manchado era, desde siempre, un poema.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

Tell the fucking story.

You have to create a form from the life that exists, not the other way around. If it comes out in these little pieces, that's what it is.

Ipak, nerijetko ga je morila sumnja koja opsjeda srce mnogoga umjetnika: da je njegova umjetnost, iskopana iz najtamnijih dubina njegove duše, ?isto sranje. Ponekad je osje?ao takav stid da bi otkazivao probe. Nije mogao podnijeti razmišljanje o svojim pjesmama-njegovo se odsustvo talenta prostiralo pred njim poput Sahare pred umornim putnikom na smrdljivoj devi.

Do you hear that, Dillon? Inadvertent self-wedgie! Write that down! That's what you want your characters to say, not some anodyne bullshit about corporate greed.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

There is no art more akin to mysticism than architecture.

The fire of love is drawn from the sky rather than the human mind.

When women saw her photo and heard her life story, they clamored to take her course and sit for her treatments. The twin promises of enhanced beauty and financial gain—not to mention Madam Walker's own phenomenal personal example—served as a magnet to women who had always believed they would never be more than maids and laundresses.

Come diceva spesso agli altri e a sé stessa, tutto il suo studio era di secondare i voleri del cielo; ma faceva spesso uno sbaglio grosso, ch'era di prender per cielo il suo cervello.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

Then quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

And she would do great things.

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