Quotes About Inspiration

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Man is a genius when he is dreaming.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Genius creates, and taste preserves.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked.

Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.

I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

Creativity is the greatest gift of human intelligence.

It is emotion that drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.

For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.

The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most invisible expressions of the brain.

I'd like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them.

I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible.

I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

Divine Intelligence working through me always knows just what I need and always supplies it when I need it.

Original thinking migrates each day in search of nourishment.

Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.