Quotes About Inspiration

He hablado de la inutilidad del arte, pero no he dicho la verdad sobre el consuelo que procura.

man is only an extension of the spirit of place.

the indifference of the natural world to the constructions of art

Esos momentos son los que colman al escritor, no al enamorado, y perduran para siempre. Podemos evocarlos cuantas veces queramos o utilizarlos como fundamento para construir esa parte de la vida que es la tarea de escribir.

only there, in the silences of the painter or the writer can reality be reordered, reworked and made to show its significant side.

These are the moments which possess the writer, not the lover, and which live on perpetually. One can return to them time and time again in memory, or use them as a fund upon which to build the part of one's life which is writing. One can debauch them with words, but one cannot spoil them.

Yes, one day I found myself writing down with trembing fingers the four words with which every story-teller since the world began has staked his slender claim to the attention of his fellow-men. Words which presage simply the old story of an artist coming of age. I wrote: 'Once upon a time...

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

The things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden.

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I leave no trace of wings in the air, but I am glad I have had my flight.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their convictions.

I had a hundred and seventeen days in which to convince Will Traynor that he had a reason to live.

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.