Quotes About Inspiration

All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.

you have nothing worth dying for, you will die. If you have nothing worth living for except mere living, you will not live.

God is a God who speaks!

To quote Alfred Einstein: 'a follower tells, but a leader shows.

a follower tells, but a leader shows.

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come," said Victor Hugo

A shared vision is not an idea. It is not even an important idea such as freedom. It is, rather, a force in people's hearts, a force of impressive power. It may be inspired by an idea, but once it goes further—if it is compelling enough to acquire the support of more than one person—then it is no longer an abstraction. It is palpable. People begin to see it as if it exists. Few, if any, forces in human affairs are as powerful as shared vision.

Organizations intent on building shared visions continually encourage members to develop their personal visions.

we must allow multiple visions to coexist, listening for the right course of action that transcends and unifies all our individual visions. As one highly successful CEO expressed it: "My job, fundamentally, is listening to what the organization is trying to say, and them making sure that it is forcefully articulated.

The more willing you are for him to make a free choice, the freer he will feel. This can be especially difficult with subordinates, who are often conditioned to feel as though they must go along. But you can still help by creating the time and safety for them to develop their own sense of vision.

Great teachers create space for learning and invite people into that space.

leaders' work as teachers often starts with their recognition of an important capacity that is lacking in an organization.

Shared visions emerge from personal visions. This is how they derive their energy and how they foster commitment. As

it is no surprise that extraordinary leaders, like Mieko Nishimizu and Roger Saillant, often have deep personal stories of moments of awakening, when some old part of them died and a new part emerged.

Dark, blowing clouds of snow over the mountain, and a snowy sunlight in the skeletal hickories—how do you like these common miracles!

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that he might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

La Closerie, in Ansouis.

steal anything.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

For Elvis, individual style came unconsciously, from within, demanding expression years before he could have been categorized as an artist. His unique appearance was uncontrived, something that emerged from him, rather than something put onto him.

used to write her books.

I think writers have to able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid

Peter Robinson

Art is long, life is short', goes the old adage, and arranging a limited number of paintings to represent the numerous developments and styles of Western art is by all standards a Herculean task.