Quotes About Inspiration

If necessity is the mother of invention, laziness is the father. The Einstein summation convention is the offspring of this happy marriage.

the world seems filled with people who are genuinely, deeply interested in physics but whose lives have taken them in different directions. This book is for all of us.

We don't preach the Scriptures; we let the Scriptures preach through us as they point to Christ.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

My mother is a walking miracle.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

La Sicilia è tutta una dimensione fantastica: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

La scienza, come la poesia, si sa che sta ad un passo dalla follia [...]

La Sicilia è tutta una fantastica dimensione: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

Io credo nel mistero delle parole, e che le parole possano diventare vita, destino; così come diventano bellezza.

nulla è più delizioso per uno scrittore del divagare, dell'estravagare: lo scrivere sembra diventare pura, trasparente esistenza - notiamo di quanto profitto siano per la letteratura i miti e le cronache dei gemelli, dei sosia, delle usurpazioni e/o contestazioni di identità, delle sostituzioni notturne e degli sdoppiamenti o dimezzamenti tipo Jekyll-Hyde.

Far from Italy, far from my native TarentumI lie; and this is the worst of it—worse than death.An exile's life is no life. But the Muses loved me.For my suffering they gave me a honeyed gift:My name survives me. Thanks to the sweet MusesLeonidas will echo throughout all time.

Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.

Draußen summten motivierte Hummeln vorbei.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

El arte es una magia que hace que las horas se desvanezcan e incluso que los días se disuelvan en segundos.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady?

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.