Quotes About Inspiration

Never, never will the grey cells function unless you stimulate them.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

The way of an artist is an entirely different way. It is a way of surrender.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

Le passé en lui-même est un très mauvais matériau pour la littérature. La littérature est un présent brûlant, non au sens journalistique, mais comme une aspiration à transcender le temps en une présence éternelle

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

The face of all the world is changed, I think Since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I suppose it has been said that art sometimes benefits from a touch of madness

A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

Once You Love What You Do, You'll Reach What You Are Doin' it For ...

You Don't Have To Be The Un-Belivable To Be Successfull, Jus' try to Be The UN-Stoppable, Then Success Will Chase You Just To Reach Success You've Reached ...

Mediocrity is but a by-product of the dispassionate

The germ of genius with a definite purpose is contagious. Otherwise, it's pathogenic.

You can kill the poet but never his rhyme

Ha ka baqin inaad ku guul dareysato imtixaanada, ka cabso inaad mar walba markhaati u noqoto guusha ardayda kale.

Ha ka noqon goobaha waxbarashada macmiil joogto ah! Noqo mid ka midho dhaliya hadafka ardaynimo.

Trees make me believe that we can also renew and reshape our lives, no matter what we face life.

Readers are made by readers.

Christ is, then, the perfect art work in the sense of that reality in whom is realised those goals that all artistic making has as its explicit or implicit ends. Because he is infinite meaning, life and being perfectly synthesised with finite form, the cave painters at Lascaux, or Hesiod penning his hymns, or Beethoven working on his last quartets, were all gesturing towards him though they realised it not.

If you can't be a good example, At least be a horrible warning.

In fact, you could say that I became a poet by renouncing poetry.

La connaissance poetique nait dans la grand silence de la connaissance scientifique

Ainsley Harriott