Quotes About Inspiration

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

You can't lead bunny lives and write tiger poetry.

Good writing is rhythm.

If instead of just clay I could take all the prettiest things Like a rainbow, Or clouds or the way a bird sings, Maybe then, dearest Mommy, If I put them all together, I could really make a sculpture of you.

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

I invoke the genius of the Constitution.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. —JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.

William Roberts

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

A few thousand Europeans, no matter how inventive their work in chemicals, or metallurgy, could not create an Industrial Revolution unless they could inspire (or borrow, or even steal) from one another;

...though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind...

Drawings, as it has so often been said, are the most intimate expressions of an artist. They can reveal the very act of creation, a first idea, the first spontaneous stroke. They can tell much about an artist himself—for instance, that van Gogh in the south of France remembered an etching by Rembrandt, or that Picasso reinterpreted a composition by Millet.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

A writer lives at best, in a state of astonishment.

I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

Cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.