Quotes About Inspiration

It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.

Since the days of ancient Alexandria libraries had stood for all the best that mankind could achieve. The very existence of libraries held out hope for the future of the human race, as far as Letty was concerned. If people had enough sense to collect and store information and make it available to everyone, perhaps they would someday have enough sense to use that wisdom to stop wars and find a cure for cancer.

J'ai cru au jour la première aujourd'hui.

Le jardin dormait encore. Je l'ai surpris, nourrice. Je l'ai vu sans qu'il s'en doute. C'est beau un jardin qui ne pense pas encore aux hommes.

Art does not die because there is no more art; it dies because there is too much.

Any gloss on authors, their character traits or biographies, hides the fact that only bad writing has an author, good writing does not.

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his dark angel, to risk his illegal instincts.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand … We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

When I make a film, it is a sleep in which I am dreaming.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to the about-turns of the mind.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Poetry is a machine that manufactures love. Its other virtues escape me.

Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule.

Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.

Il y a dans le dessin une très grande jouissance. L'écriture, c'est le dessin noué autrement. (...) Et quand je dessine, j'écris, et, peut-être, que quand j'ecris, je dessine.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction, the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

There is neither magic nor master's eye. Only a great deal of love and a great deal of work.

The knack is art.

Success had put me on the wrong track and I did not know that there is a kind of success worse than failure, and a kind of failure worth all the success in the world. Neither did I know that the distant friendship of Rainer Maria Rilke would one day console me for having seen his lamp burn without knowing that it was signalling me to go and singe my wings against its flame.

Je sais que la poésie est indispensable, mais je ne sais pas à quoi.

Art is not a pastime, but a priesthood.

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