Quotes About Inspiration

When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

My life will be the best illustration of all my work.

Everyman's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

I was once again gripped by the old familiar passion; I wrote without looking up, nor did I look round either - neither to the left, nor to the right.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Very often, in the visual arts, if you take the first work of a visual artist, it already includes almost everything they do later.

I think that one of the things I have always found most attractive about art and music and culture is the experience of how it can change one's thinking. This has always been the big pay-off for me. - Tony Conrad

The letter kills, it is the Spirit that gives life!" (2 Cor 3:6). You may be sure, reverend sir, that I will never accept some concept from Scripture if I have not really understood its meaning.

We have seen how someone else has encountered the word of God, we have even profited by his encounter, but all the same it was his and not ours—and we ourselves have achieved nothing.

Every mystery of life has its origin in the heart.

Hanumant Deshmukh

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear things.

The wall was an eyesore in its newness, grayness, lack of grace. That much blank space might not set a regular person's blood racing, but to an artist, it's like opening up a new sketchpad, the kind with heavy textured paper. Impossible to leave it empty.

Setting aside her own disappointment, Abigail tried to lift her son's spirits: "These are the times in which a genius would wish to live," she told him. "It is not in the still calm life . . . that great characters are formed. . . . When a mind is raised and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.