Quotes About Inspiration

If the writer were more like a reader, he'd be a reader, not a writer. It's as uncomplicated as that.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

Poets don't run out of material the way novelists do because they don't depend on material in the same way.

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

There's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never sullied with a definite shape, which never needs to be exposed to a less loving gaze than that of its author.

Major General Anders later reflected: I think it was the Earthrise that really kind of got everybody in the solar plexus Ã¢â'¬Â¦ We were looking back at our planet, the place where we evolved. Our Earth was quite colorful, pretty and delicate compared to the very rough, rugged, beat-up, even boring lunar surface. I think it struck everybody that here we'd come 240,000 miles to see the Moon and it was the Earth that was really worth looking at.

El arte siempre tiene al tiempo de su parte

Adrian, however, pushed us to believe in the application of thought to life, in the notion

Do not imagine that art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence. Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket

He applauded their idealism. And yes, music might be immortal, but composers alas are not.

When I first began to write, I laid myself the rule [...] that I should write as if my parents were dead. (Page 108, US edition)

c'est moi» es una alusión a la respuesta que dio Cervantes cuando en su lecho de muerte le preguntaron por el origen de su famoso personaje. Cf. Travestismo.

When all else failed, when there seemed to be nothing but nonsense in the world, he held to this: that good music would always be good music, and great music was impregnable. You could play Bach's preludes and fugues at any tempo, with any dynamics, and they would still be great music, proof even against the wretch who brought ten thumbs to the keyboard. And in the same way, you could not play such music cynically.

You don't paint souls, you paint bodies, and the soul shines through.

We believe too little, and aesthetically know too much; so we re-create, we find new categories of pleasure in the work.

The essential point here is that there are several stages of creative thought: first, a stage of preparation in which the problem is consciously worked over; then a period of incubation without any conscious concentration upon the problem; and then the illumination which is later justified by logic.

Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.

The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.

Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

You're a hero here.' 'I don't want to be a hero.' 'What do you want?' 'I want to be a leader.

I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.