Quotes About Inspiration

Todo niño es un artista. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista una vez que se crece».

La creación de algo nuevo no es un logro del intelecto sino el instinto de juego que actúa a partir de una necesidad interior. La mente creativa juega con los objetos que ama».

Para lograr una buena relación con nuestra creatividad debemos dedicar el tiempo suficiente a cultivarla y cuidarla.

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God.

What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly. SHAKTI GAWAIN

La creación de algo nuevo no es un logro del intelecto sino el instinto de juego que actúa a partir de una necesidad interior. La mente creativa juega con los objetos que ama». CARL GUSTAV JUNG

We must wait for an idea to hatch.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. SHAKTI GAWAIN

Pintar no es más que otra forma de llevar un diario».

Many artists begin a piece of work, get well along in it, and then find, as they near completion, that the work seems mysteriously drained of merit. To therapists, this surge of sudden disinterest ... is a routine coping device employed to ... ward off vulnerability.

The morning pages will teach you to stop judging and just let yourself write. So what if you're tired, crabby, distracted, stressed? Your artist is a child and it needs to be fed. Morning pages feed your artist child. So write your morning pages.

How much control are we willing to surrender for the sake of allowing creativity to move through us rather than our trying to flog it forward for agendas of our own?

When we forget ourselves, when we let go of being good and settle into just being a writer, we begin to have the experience of writing through us.

On the other side of the tree, a Storyteller sits also resting against the tree trunk. Take a sheet of paper and number from one to five. Tell the Storyteller five things you'd like to hear stories about.

If only we could give ourselves permission to write "badly," so many of us would write very well indeed.

atrapados entre el sueño de la acción y el miedo al fracaso, es donde nacen los artistas sombra.

As blocked creatives, we are willing to go to almost any lengths to remain blocked. As frightening and abusive as life with a crazymaker is, we find it far less threatening than the challenge of a creative life of our own.

If we let ourselves notice, writing feels collaborative. It is a dance between reality and us as an observer.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. . . . When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself. WILLIAM BAZIOTES

Aprendí a quitarme de en medio y a dejar que esa energía vital se expresara a través de mí.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't ... your mood doesn't really matter. Some of the best creative work gets done on the days when you feel that everything you are doing is just plain junk ... stop judging yourself and just let yourself write.

Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados».

It is very difficult to complain about a situation morning after morning, month after month, without being moved to constructive action.