Quotes About Inspiration

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an idea.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man.

Example is a motive of very prevailing force on the actions of men.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

Chess is a form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

Creation is man's immortality and brings him nearest to the gods.