Quotes About Inspiration

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

Don't be afraid of poetry.

The movement Of the body is Where poetry Begins

I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.

That which is imagined can never be lost.

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the treasure house of his memory. In many respects Rilke was a prick.

Art is the outward integration inspired by the artist's inner disintegration.

And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder, and when we meet young people who say that they were inspired by what we said to rush off and read the books we were talking about, we can congratulate ourselves for all those guilty hours when, the last two left after a long lunch, we went on arguing about everything we knew.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

a poem is never finished, only abandoned,

That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world.

Nijinsky got all his master classes over in a single line of explanation.

Artistic talent is indeed a gift from God, which the artist is obliged to match with the gift of his life.

It has to be remembered that the typical Polish writer was Bruno Schulz.

Liberals and humanists are always saying that art is the soul of truth.

Dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE,

The thing about Hemingway that people forget is that all the stuff he did was at a time where people weren't traveling that much. At 19 he travels to Italy. He goes to the Spanish Civil War. He goes to China, he goes to Africa so at that time to travel that much is really incredible.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

Auroras de diciembre espléndidas y risueñas, que convidan al vivir; ellas, sin duda, inspiran al pintor y al poeta de la patria peruana.