Quotes About Inspiration

Thus Spake Zarathustra

As one reads Hegel one realizes how much inspiration Hitler, like Marx, drew from him, even if it was at second hand. Above all else, Hegel in his theory of "heroes," those great agents who are

I'm glad you've seen the part played by our women in our movement, Gandhi beamed. The world has never seen such a magnificent spectacle. They were as brave as our men.

Art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.

Art Nouveau was coil-envy.

They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.

Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.

Maria Spiridonova

Be a dilettante, a sciolist, a swindler … So long as you return me to the sky, Grimnebulin.

The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare.

He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

Life begins the day you start a garden.

Good sayings are like pearls strung together.

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.

Logic takes you from A to B, but imagination takes you everywhere.

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.

There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.