Quotes About Inspiration

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject.... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and how it comes to pass that so many heads on which nature seemed to have inflicted the curse of barrenness should teem with voluminous productions.

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Washington Irving