Quotes About Inspiration

Dac? lumina e prima dragoste a vie?ii, dragostea nu este oare lumina inimii?

But stay, you shall not come from Havre to Paris to see Canalis without carrying something back with you. Warrior!" (Canalis had the form and action of an Homeric hero) "learn this from the poet: Every noble sentiment in man is a poem so exclusively individual that his nearest friend, his other self, cares nothing for it. It is a treasure which is his alone, it is —

Sufra, sufra, amigo mío, será famoso, sus penas son el precio de la inmortalidad. Mucho me gustaría a mí tener que soportar las penalidades de una lucha. Dios le guarde de una vida sin conflicto ni luchas, en la que las alas del águila no encuentran espacio bastante. ¡Envidio sus sufrimientos, pues al menos usted está vivo! ¡Desplegará sus fuerzas, esperará una victoria! Su lucha será gloriosa.

Hay momentos en la vida en que se desea tomar el camino más largo a fin de mantener vivo caminando el hervidero de ideas en el que nos encontramos inmersos y a cuyo fluir desea uno abandonarse.

The physician strains towards good as an artist towards beauty, each impelled by that grand sentiment which we call virtue.

More ideas surged through her head in one quarter of an hour than she had ever had since she came into the world. "Mamma," she said, "my cousin will never bear the smell of a tallow candle; suppose we buy a wax one?" And she darted, swift as a bird, to get the five-franc piece which she had just received for her monthly expenses. "Here, Nanon," she cried, "quick!

The purpose of art is not to copy nature, but to express it. It's not about making good or bad copies, it's about poetry!

Otherwise a sculptor could save himself the trouble and take a cast of a woman! And yet, try making a cast of your mistress's hand and

Mavi de, bütün çe?itleriyle, göklerden al?nm??t?r, beyazla iyi ba?da??r. Bunlar?n ikisi de birer safl?k de?il midir?

Tout écrivain porte en son coeur un monstre qui, semblable au taenia dans l'estomac, y dévore les sentiments à mesure qu'ils y éclosent. Qui triomphera ? la maladie de l'homme, ou l'homme de la maladie ? Certes, il faut être un grand homme pour tenir la balance entre son génie et son caractère. Le talent grandit, le coeur se dessèche. A moins d'être un colosse, à moins d'avoir des épaules d'Hercule, on reste ou sans coeur ou sans talent. Vous

Los hombres de genio no tenían hermanos ni hermanas, ni padres ni madres; las grandes obras que habrían de crear les imponían un egoísmo aparente al obligarles a sacrificarlo todo a su grandeza.

L'inspiration, c'est l'occasion du génie.

Le hasard est le plus grand romancier du monde : pour être fécond, il n'y a qu'à l'étudier.

Los hombres que tienen tantas cosas que expresar en bellas obras soñadas durante mucho tiempo sienten cierto desprecio por la conversación, trato en el que el espíritu se rebaja al degradarse.

L'amour a ses intuitions, comme le génie a les siennes.

And lastly, here in Paris there is a spirit which you breathe in the air; it infuses the least details, every literary creation bears traces of its influence. You learn more by talk in a cafe, or at a theatre, in one half hour, than you would learn in ten years in the provinces. Here, in truth, wherever you go, there is always something to see, something to learn, some comparison to make.

Art can go no further than this. Art has risen above Nature, since Nature only gives her creatures a few brief years of life.

There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier.

If light is the first love of life, is not love the light of the heart?

finding that art is long and life is short — ars longa et vita brevis — did not commit the mistake of wasting their time and lessening their powers of creation by silly and insipid intrigues.

Il genio è pazienza, come ha detto Buffon. La pazienza è in effetti ciò che, nell'uomo, somiglia di più ai procedimenti che segue la natura quando crea. Che cos'è l'arte, signore? è la natura concentrata.»

I'd finally found my briar patch. My purpose in life,

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.