Quotes About Inspiration

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Where words leave off, music begins.

I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never have been the motivation for himto put down his private roots on Obersalzberg.

I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.

The subject of food is like Chopsticks: almost anyone can improvise on it.

The see lifts me again, and carries me away with it.

I fix myself a hot chocolate because it is a gateway drug to reading.

Write what I know, who wants to read that? If only our apartment was haunted or I was the tiniest bit possessed by the devil.

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image....

There are no rules. That is how art is born.

Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing people have got going for them is imagination. At times of great darkness, everything around us becomes symbolic, poetic, archetypal. Perhaps this is what dreaming, and art, are for.

But I've been reading A Very Easy Death, about Simone de Beauvoir's mother dying of cancer – it's just brilliant. It really helped me.' She

She had lived what so many of us had talked about.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

I cry out for order and find it only in art.

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

I genitori ti insegnano ad amare, ridere e correre. Ma solo entrando in contatto con i libri, si scopre di avere le ali.

From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

My mind is the pendant, creativity is the chain