Quotes About Inspiration

You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him. He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there. He is a suggestion, as I have said, of a new manner. I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

I put all my talent into my works; I put my genius into my life

Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest, in some way find that the ugliness of their sin is taken away and the beauty of their sorrow is revealed to them.

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE

iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox.

You talk books away, he said; why don't you write one? I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.

If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.

Art is not a thing. It is a way.

She is all the great heroines of the world in one.

the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

artists have sex but art has none

And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.

Romantic art begins with its climax.

Was there some subtle affinity between the chemical atoms that shaped themselves into form and colour on the canvas and the soul that was within him? Could it be that what that soul thought, they realized? -- that what it dreamed, they made true?

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.

What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.

Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.

As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.