Quotes About Inspiration

It can be very daunting and upsetting when people realize that others are more talented than they are. But you have to work through that. You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world.

In the end, learning how to write songs is, in large part, about teaching yourself to fail and being OK with it. But it's also about searching for, finding, and sharing some truth.

What you make of the song or what the world will make of it is of little concern when contrasted with the joy that I've talked about many times now—the joy of disappearing long enough to find something you didn't know you had inside you.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Whenever I write first drafts, I like to maximize the possibility of f-ups, mistakes, mis-written words, digressions, crazy changes in tone, etc. This is why I don't use outlining software or even a computer and why I spread pages and images and research materials kinda crazy across the table. Never know what'll happen.

The world is filled with people who have too much imagination solely because the people around them have too little.

Renaissance artist Gregorio Comanini, has counseled the equivalent of "Live an ordinary, regular life so you can be irregular and brilliant in your creativity.

A theory was forming in his head, like a musical composition he could hum from vague memories but not quite yet name or play.

I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Reprimir a un artista es delito, significa asesinar vida en gestación

bukan sekadar membaca, tetapi mempertemukan antara satu buku dengan yang lain, mempertemukan mereka dengan realitas lalu menemukan sintesis dan membuat tulisan kita sendiri.

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

La imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento. El conocimiento es limitado, la imaginación rodea el mundo".

Logica brengt je van A naar B. Verbeelding brengt je overal.

Write something every day,' she said, 'even if it's only a line, it will protect you.

You were born to be among the advisors and thinkers, the spiritual and moral leaders for your society. There is every reason for pride.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education.

In effect, writers give us a transcript of how the brain works because they look at the images turning up in their own minds with such concentration and dedication.

Because the practice of writing is, then, a laying down of flowers upon flowers, it may be regarded as an exteriorization of what the imagining mind does, and of what it was doing long before it invented this external form of itself.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened.... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. Hold up to him his better self, his REAL self that can dare and do and win out!... The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town....

Side by side stood The Lady of the Lake, Treasure Island, and David Copperfield; and coverless and dogeared lay Robinson Crusoe, The Arabian Nights, and Grimm's Fairy Tales. There were more, many more, and David devoured them all with eager eyes. The good in them he absorbed as he absorbed the sunshine; the evil he cast aside unconsciously—it rolled off, indeed, like the proverbial water from the duck's back.