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Quotes About Inspiration

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
~ Eugene Delacroix
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
~ Oscar Wilde
Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.
~ David Steindl-Rast
The beauty of art is that there are no rules
~ Mia Michaels
Creativity ignited a spark. In that moment, I saw that art is not peripheral, beauty is not optional, but a strategy for survival.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.
~ Michelangelo
Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new.
~ Saint Augustine
Beauty can be seen in all things.
~ Matt Hardy
The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.
~ Carl Sagan
Look, up at the sky. There is a light, a beauty up there, that no shadow can touch
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.
~ Mark Twain
The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.
~ Sri Aurobindo
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
~ Plotinus
We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.
~ Renzo Gracie
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
~ Edmund Burke
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.
~ Marcus du Sautoy
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
~ Anne Michaels
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty
~ R. S. Thomas
The truest protest is beauty.
~ Phil Ochs
Be Brave in the pursuit of beauty
~ Shu Uemura
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
~ Meher Baba
I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.
~ Jeffrey Smart