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Quotes About Inspiration

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.
~ James Joyce
His soul had arisen from the grave of boyhood, spurning her grave-clothes. Yes! Yes! Yes! He would create proudly out of the freedom and power of his soul, as the great artificer whose name he bore, a living thing, new and soaring and beautiful, impalpable, imperishable.
~ James Joyce
Oftwhile balbulous, mithre ahead, with goodly trowel in grasp and ivoroiled overalls which he habitacularly fondseed...
~ James Joyce
The esthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of esthetic, like that of material creation, is accomplished. The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
~ James Joyce
Do you feel how profound that is because you are a poet?
~ James Joyce
And, as a mere matter of ficfect, I tell of myself how I popo possess the ripest littlums wifukie around the globelettes globes (...)
~ James Joyce
the stone for my month a nice aquamarine
~ James Joyce
Dac? cineva-È™i închipuie c? nu sunt divin Nu-i mai dau de b?ut când mai fac vin, Ap? s? bea, dar s? È™tie c? nu-i ap? chioar?, Ci-i apa pe care o fac eu când d? vinul din mine afar?.
~ James Joyce
When all is said Dumas fils (or is it Dumas père?) is right. After God Shakespeare has created most.
~ James Joyce
Visi atrodÄ— pavargÄ™ nuo gyvenimo, dar nepradÄ—jÄ™ gyventi.
~ James Joyce
The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future. A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man.
~ James Joyce
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
~ James Joyce
In her lay a Godframed Godgiven preformed possibility which thou hast fructified with thy modicum of man's work.
~ James Joyce
maestro di color che sanno.
~ James Joyce
Father Bernard Vaughan's sermon first. Christ or Pilate? Christ, but don't keep us all night over it.
~ James Joyce
Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences.
~ James Joyce
Be on the side of the angels. Be a prism. You have that something within, the higher self.
~ James Joyce
Rhythm begins, you see. I hear. A catalectic tetrameter of iambs march ing.
~ James Joyce
Don't know what poetry is even. Must be in a certain mood.
~ James Joyce
a man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery
~ James Joyce
He was not convinced of the truth of the saying [] "The poet is born, not made" but he was quite sure of the truth of this at least: [] "The poem is made not born.
~ James Joyce
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What beautiful is is another question
~ James Joyce
Non solo un pittore della domenica, ma un essere umano della domenica.
~ James K. Morrow
You could see into your own soul with total honesty of vision and find the wherewithal to get it down, that steady hand.
~ James Kelman