Quotes About Inspiration

I am all for teachers who can make their subjects interesting, who can make them live.

One proof of the inspiration of the Bible is that it has withstood so much poor preaching.

Dilin geçirdi?i bu serüveni, yani susmay?, bir ?ey önermemeyi, uzakl???, kendi d???na ç?kmay?, cinneti, daha nice ?eyi bütün ba?yap?tlarda bulabiliriz." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 12

Bir ?iirde dizeler bir duvar?n ta?lar? gibidir. Ta?, bir duvarda nas?l ta? olmaktan ç?kmaz, yap?s?n?, do?as?n? korursa, dizeler de öyledir." ?lhan Berk, 'Poetika', sayfa 33

One does not paint a landscape, a seascape, a figure. One paints an impression of an hour of the day.

C'est toujours l'imagination qui l'emporte sur la volonté, sans aucune exception. - It is always the imagination that wins over the will, without exception.

A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

One side will have before its eyes the blessings of the past and the hope of similar joy in the future; their thoughts will dwell less on the comparatively brief pain of battle than on what they may have to endure forever, they, their children, and all their posterity. The other side has nothing to inspire it with courage except the weak urge of greed, which fades before danger and which can never be so keen, it seems to me, that it will not be dismayed by the least drop of blood from wounds.

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

If no one gambled against the grain in good times, there would be no winners to inspire people in the bad times.

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

As a matter of fact, the experience of most composers has been that the more complete a theme is the less possibility there is of seeing it in various aspects. If the theme itself, in its original form, is long enough and complete enough, the composer may have difficulty in seeing it in any other way. It already exists in its definitive form. That is why great music can be written on themes that in themselves are insignificant.

Why a good melody should have the power to move us has thus far defied all analysis.

They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be used as a soporific. Contemporary music, especially, is created to wake you up, not put you to sleep. It is meant to stir and excite you, to move you—it may even exhaust you.

I'd like to do a romantic comedy.

Ask yourself what makes you come alive....and go do that.

Put aside a few minutes today to imagine and play. -Aaron Jhinkoo

Share your wisdom with everyone! -Aaron Jhinkoo

Unleash Your Creativity. -Aaron Jhinkoo

People come, students and everyone else, to be inspired by the biennale. They expect to see architecture as a kind of seismograph of where we are.