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Quotes About Inspiration

I'll paint you moments of gold, I'll spin you Valentine evenings.
~ David Bowie
Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.
~ Ayn Rand
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
~ Katie Roiphe
I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.
~ Robert Plant
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
~ John McLaughlin
My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.
~ Martina McBride
If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.
~ Alice Cooper
I want to be a contemporary artist and at the same time a romantic!
~ Luis Gonzalez
I am a postmodern romantic. I try to use their way to photograph, and at the same time, incorporate the problems that I feel in a country like Guatemala.
~ Luis Gonzalez
A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren't enough, I knewI was in love.
~ Saiber, Stardust and Sheets
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
~ Sinclair Lewis
I always wanted to be a teacher. I went to school to be a teacher. And I've always, you know, had this sort of romantic idea about it. But I'm worried about - I'm worried about education.
~ Tony Danza
I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
~ Felicity Jones
The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.
~ Alden Ehrenreich
Could I imagine being a piano? That'd be awesome. I'd throw a D-minor at you to make you sad, then an F-major to make you happy!
~ Brendon Urie
The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.
~ Pier Giorgio Frassati
Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down
~ John Frusciante
I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
~ Nick Cave
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
~ E. B. White
If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.
~ Jean Houston
I'm not used to writing about happy emotions, I'm just used to pulling from my sad or angry - happy emotions are very hard for me to portray in music.
~ Melanie Martinez
It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in my heart, "God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is."
~ John G. Lake
Don't be sad and don't give up on your dreams. Dreams will come true one day. There's no person as beautiful as a person who dreams
~ Kim Him-chan
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
~ Orison Swett Marden