Quotes About Inspiration

It was impossible to instruct on the subject of beauty, of course. It simply was. You were either moved by it or you weren't.

She could have started up a branch library (or a spectacular house fire)

It's funny, isn't it, Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

I myself am usually to be found lying on the bed imitating the dead Chatterton, killing time by reading book after book (the only reliable otherworlds i´ve discovered so far).

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius-the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies.

One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.

We tend to think of the Faustian man, the one who fabricates, manipulates, seduces and ends up destroying. But the new image will be man the creator, the artist, the player.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book, when I finished: 'This is a book about Alentejo.'

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.