Quotes About Inspiration

All art is quite useless.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

Art only begins where Imitation ends.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

She lives in the poetry she cannot write.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.