Quotes About Inspiration

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

I can make men follow me to hell.

In dreams and visions lie the greatest creations of man, for on them rests no yoke of line or hue.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.

That she does not crouch today where St Paul tried to bind her, she owes to the men who are grand and brave enough to ignore St Paul, and rise superior to his God.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

Of all the things that men may heed 'Tis most of love they sing indeed.

We used to be "shiftless and lazy," now we're "fearsome and awesome." I think the black man should take pride in that.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

When men are growing up and they're reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman ... those are not fantasies ... they're options.

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears.

I think for most guys, when we grow up we're trying to establish what being a man means to us and so I think it's pretty helpful and beneficial when there's a role model in the house.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.