Quotes About Inspiration

I was born by the river

We are co-composers of the universe. We are on-creators of the God that is creating us.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

Dreams can be of value even if you don't have an opportunity to turn them into reality.

I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author." [As quoted in the author biography on Mankell's official website .]

Ah, there are cloudy moments when one asks himself if men do not deserve all the disasters into which they rush! No I recover myself they do not deserve them. But we, instead of saying "I wish" must say "I will." And what we will, we must will to build it, with order, with method, beginning at the beginning, when once we have been as far as that beginning. We must not only open our eyes, but our arms, our wings.

There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Donde hay felicidad, hay creación. Cuanto más rica es la creación, más profunda es la felicidad

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

To take photographs is to hold one's breath when all faculties converge in the face of fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. To take photographs means to recognize—simultaneously and within a fraction of a second—both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye, and one's heart on the same axis.

How do you make your pictures? — I don't know, it's not important.

qualunque cosa noi facciamo, kertész l'ha fatto prima.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

You have to try and stay alive in front of what you see, struggle with reality, get rid of habits and routines. You have to train yourself to look all the time, swinging between the conscious and the unconscious. In a sort of dance, I practice immediate, automatic, and intuitive drawing. I get a Normas joy from it. But the flaunting of reportage—getting into situations, "working" a subject—that is not photography.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Love is faith, and one faith leads to another.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.

The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

I want to reach that state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.