Quotes About Inspiration

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

the adventure of the soul among the masterpieces.

Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.

Les plus beaux livres sont ceux qui n'ont jamais été écrits.

Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

I respect Everest very much.

One of the best ways to create and sustain social motivation is to surround yourself with people who will encourage and support and challenge you in your endeavors. Not only did the Berlin violin students spend most of their time with other music students, but they also tended to date music students or at least others who would appreciate their passion for music and understand their need to prioritize their practice.

Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

Mexico is the most surrealist country in the world.

Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Whether the world be good or evil I cannot say, but I am certain that it is men like Bazin who make it a better place. For, in believing life to be good and behaving accordingly, André had a beneficial effect on all who came in contact with him, and one could count on the fingers of one hand those who behaved badly toward him.

The sound of a windshield-wiper against a page of Diderot is all it took to turn it into Racinian dialogue

There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.

speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.

La poésie se fait dans un lit comme l'amour Ses draps défaits sont l'aurore des choses (English) Poetry is made in bed like love Its unmade sheets are the dawn of things

Elle me dit son nom, celui qu'elle s'est choisi: « Nadja, parce qu'en russe c'est le commencement du mot espérance, et parce que ce n'en n'est que le commencement.