Quotes About Inspiration

It is possible at any age to discover a lifelong desire you never knew you had.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.

The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

There is always sufficient reason for despair, but there is never sufficient purpose.

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.'

A film is born in my head. I try to make it, but I never succeed. What I want to do is impossible. It's beyond my capacity.

Authentic expression is something you can't invent. When you capture it, it's worthy of admiration.

Cinema, like music, should wash away the dust of everyday life.

L'oeil superficiel, l'oreille profonde et inventive. Le sifflement d'une locomotive imprime en nous la vision de toute une gare.

To Bresson, art is the only possible escape from the bitterness of impotence.

They are trying to explain what is not explainable. That is why many young people try to find something idealistic in dao – because they need something to live.

A quote by film director Robert Bresson (1901-1999), 'Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen' (as cited in The Independent I, 2019), encapsulates why, although there appears to be a gap between peers' early language skills, it is necessary to go beyond rhetoric and supposition.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.[3]

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.

Robert Bresson

if the poet becomes what-is, then what-is (and no one else) becomes the author of the poem.

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?