Quotes About Inspiration

I can write no stately proem As a prelude to my lay; From a poet to a poem I would dare to say. For if of these fallen petals One to you seem fair, Love will waft it till it settles On your hair. And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination.

No Artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Le donne ci ispirano il desiderio di far dei capolavori e ci impediscono sempre di eseguirli

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Your days are your sonnets.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. the sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.

No artist has ethical sympathies.

now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy.

The is nothing that art cannot express

We look to the archaeologist for the materials, to the artist for the method.

Ningún artista es morboso. El artista está capacitado para expresarlo todo.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds

But then the only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

Amar es superarse

Creo que el arte oculta al artista más que lo descubre

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

Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.... A new Hedonism--that is what our century wants.

Comprendí que estaba ante alguien cuya simple personalidad era tan fascinante que, si me abandonaba a ella, absorbería mi naturaleza entera, mi alma y hasta mi propio arte.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?