Quotes About Inspiration

Such stories may predominate in daily life, but when literature starts taking cues from statistics, it seals its own fate.

Each human act has countless causes. The author works to reveal these causes.

E sognerai che non occorre affatto respirare che il silenzio senza respiro è una musica passabile, sei piccolo come una scintilla e ti spegni al ritmo di quella.

Lying in wait, set to pounce on the blank page, are letters up to no good, clutches of clauses so subordinate they'll never let her get away. From, The Joy of Writing, Wislawa Szymborska

Moim uczniom mówiÄ™: pamiÄ™tajcie, ?e nie jestem jednym z waszych zacnych, patentowanych i gwarantowanych profesorów. Ze mnÄ… nigdy nic nie wiadomo. W ka?dej chwili mogÄ™ powiedzie? gÅ'upstwo, albo skÅ'ama? - w ogóle wystrychn?? na dudka. Ze mnÄ… nie ma ?adnej gwarancji. Jestem draÅ" - lubiÄ™ siÄ™ zabawi? - i gwi?d?? - gwi?d?? - gwi?d??... na was i na moje nauczanie.

Quién de nosotros sabría admirar a los grandes genios, si en la escuela no se le hubiese puesto bien en la cabeza que son grandes genios?

Ku tej idei - ?e taniec stwarza muzyk? - par?a ludzko?? wszystkimi drogami swoimi, ona sta?a si? natchnieniem i met? mojego czasu, ku niej i ja d??y?em po spirali, coraz cia?niejsze zataczaj?c kr?gi. Ale w tej?e chwili zosta?em unicestwiony. Gdy? zda?em sobie spraw?, ?e my?l t? my?l? jedynie dla jej patosu!

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Since I've written quite a number of songs for my plays, I would like to be nominated for a Grammy

you know that I am, as it were, completely immersed in Musique - it is on my mind all day long - I love to plan - study - reflect on it (...).

The thing is I have an inexpressible desire to write an opera again; it would make me so happy because it gives me something to compose which is my real joy and passion (...).

When I am traveling in a carriage or walking after a good meal or during the night when I cannot sleep–it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Wir brauchen keine Dichter mit guter Grammatik. Zu guter Grammatik fehlt uns Geduld.

Es ist nicht wahr, dass die Nacht alles grau macht. Es ist ein unbeschreibliches, unnachahmliches Blaugrau – das Grau für die Katzen und das Blau für die Frauen –, das die Nacht so schwer und so süß ausatmet und das so berauscht, wenn es uns zwischen halb zehn Uhr abends und Viertel nach vier morgens anweht.

Einstein's life ended.....with a demand on us for synthesis.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

No work of art can compare to a city.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existance

He opened my eyes to just how great S. J. Perelman was, superior to all other funny minds, an axiom I hold to this day.