Quotes About Inspiration

I do but sing because I must,And pipe but as the linnets sing.

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.

All the charm of all the Muses often flowering in a lonely word.

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Philosophy is the product of wonder.

Russell is a Platonic dialogue in himself.

Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions.

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent: - and the spiritual precedes the material.

Go by, go by, with all your din, Your dust, your greed, your guile, Your pomp, your gold; you cannot win From her one smile.... Outlawed? Then hills and glens and streams Are outlawed, too. Proud world, from our immortal dreams, We banish you.

When I make a picture, I make love.

The trouble with most photographers, and for that matter also with painters, and other people, is, that they are always trying to do something which is outside of themselves. In consequence they produce nothing that means anything to those who have the gift or intuition for truth: all else is really not worth a tinker's damn.

There's this guy called Joshua and he knows all about me. I hope he writes my biography, and puts spaceships in it

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.