Quotes About Inspiration

Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

J.-P. Quélin: 'The voluptuous cruelty of filling pages is what kills us.

No one single person needs to be a genius or a visionary or even a great artist for the result to be permanent and to transcend generations. In the same way, the clubs we make are collectively smarter than the people we are. Reason, like musicals, emerges from the meeting of many minds.

And yet, wasn't the terrific thing about stories the fact that they joined readers together, that they made people realize they were not alone in their hopes, dreams, and fears?

every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

He admired writers whose own stories were as interesting as the ones they wrote.

Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway.

a constraint should be regarded as a stimulus for positive change—we can choose to use it as an impetus to explore something new and arrive at a breakthrough.

When ambition is exponentially greater than resource, said Prahalad, that's when real innovation happens.

For engineers, designers and other creative problem-solvers, a formal definition of the constraints within which they must work is essential to channel energies and expand creativity.

say, 'There never was such a person as Homer,'" the English essayist Thomas De Quincey joked in 1841.

The Odyssey is constantly free and constantly inventive.

but also thought of everything, invented everything and changed everything.

First, you must believe that you can do anything you set your mind to. Remember the old adage: genius is ten percent inspiration, ninety percent perspiration.

encouraging nod of the head. Through the gigantic glass windows

A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones" (Prov. 17:22).

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Aprendi que viajar ainda é a melhor forma de alterar a vida, mudar as ideias e abraçar a inspiração, mas devemos estar de olhos bem abertos e ansiosos por agarrá-la, ou é um desperdício.