Quotes About Inspiration

I could always know from this moment on that God is ever present, and the human picture just does not matter. That miracles are normal and to expect them.

all revelation which does not give hope is useless and superfluous.

Do you know what the imagination is, Susan?" The child nodded sagely. "That's when you see things that aren't really there." "Well, not exactly," said Kris with a smile. "No -- to me the imagination is a place all by itself. A very wonderful country. You've heard of the British Nation and the French Nation?" Susan nodded again. "Well, this is the Imagination. And once you get there you can do almost anything you want.

I am always locked in my design studio.

Don't write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

Ascoltare una bella storia è come sognare, ma poi bisogna svegliarsi e la vita... bé, la vita è un'altra cosa.

Me gusta pensar que mis palabras permanecerán vivas una vez que mi voz se haya apagado.

Rare and powerful harmonies exist, Shaping both scent and contour in a flower. Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until, Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond. And thus do images of fleeting vision, Drifting above like cloud-forms in the sky, Once turned to stone live on from age to age, Held always in a faultless, polished phrase. ("A Sonnet To Form")

One of the most beautiful things to do is to paint darkness, which nevertheless has light in it.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Van Gogh: "I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream.

But in order to achieve that noble shade of yellow I achieved last summer I simply had to give myself quite a boost.

My interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I'll be in the mood again some day or other. Right now I am doing a great deal of reading

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly.

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

It is better to wake up five hundred Christians than to convert five hundred sinners, for if five hundred Christians really wake up, they will win more than five hundred sinners.

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.

A Christian is not a depository of the truth; he's a dispenser of the truth.

Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.

But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.