Quotes About Inspiration

Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!

Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings.

If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Tutto ciò che di grande e bello c'è al mondo, gratta gratta, non è mai nato da un discorso razionale. Mai.

A true leader breeds love, as well as respect.

Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash? saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?

I work as much as fifty to sixty hours at a stretch," Kusama wrote in a 1961 article of her entrancing, utterly consuming creative process. "I gradually feel myself under the spell of the accumulation and repetition in my nets which expand beyond myself, and over the limited space of canvas, covering the floor, desks and everywhere.

Creating art and writing novels and poems are simply different roads I have chosen in my search for truth.

But because New York was the sort of place it was, there were also many artists with true backbone – robust people who could not be broken. And these artists were doing good work.

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

Kabbalah profoundly influenced the greatest thinkers of history, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mohammed, Pythagoras, Plato, Newton, Leibniz, Shakespeare, and Jung.

Cuando queremos tener un buen día, disponemos de las herramientas para tener un buen día. ¿Elegiremos ser un superviviente o una estadística, un creador o un destructor? La elección es nuestra.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas.

The phono-lecturer began the description of the recently invented musicometer. "… By merely rotating this handle anyone is enabled to produce about three sonatas per hour. What difficulties our predecessors had in making music! They were able to compose only by bringing themselves to attacks of inspiration, an extinct form of epilepsy.

Was it not I who populated with them all these pages—just recently no more than white rectangular deserts? Without me, would they ever be seen by those whom I shall lead behind me along the narrow paths of lines?

Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vibrations that are sometimes the forewarning of...

?i tu ai în tine, pesemne, câteva pic?turi de sânge solar, de p?dure. Poate c? tocmai de aceea eu te --