Quotes About Inspiration

Van Gogh summarized this entire book in a single sentence: "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Skip perfection. A lame drawing is better than no drawing.

Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.

Un disegno dieci minuti di pan tostato è un zilione di volte meglio di un disegno a zero minuto di pan tostato.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer coach or as a teacher.

Her recipe for the perfect waitress was, "two parts Walter Cronkite to one part Mae West, carefully blended with a cup of Mikhail Baryshnikov and a liberal sprinkling of Mother Teresa.

Make it a good day.

Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.

Overcoming me with the light of a smile, she [Beatrice] said to me: "Turn and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise."

[Beatrice] who shall be a light between truth and intellect.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Thou [Virgil] art my master and my author, thou art he from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor.

Follow your own star!

Beauty like hers is genius.

One thing then learned remains to me—The woodspurge has a cup of three.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Quotes are great if they make you change and ACT

Un bon livre, au contraire, ne cherche pas à vous captiver, il vous fait regarder vers le haut (le ciel sans nuage d'été) tout en plongeant au fond de vous-même.

Ce qui est sûr c'est que je n'aurais pas écrit ainsi si j'étais resté là-bas. Peut-être que je n'aurais pas écrit du tout. Écrit-on hors de son pays pour se consoler? Je doute de toute vocation d'écrivain en exil.

there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.

She knew then, if without the words to express it, that what she was studying was not simply music but beauty, and that she wanted to inhabit, completely, that beauty—and

That there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.