Quotes About Inspiration

I read in desperate snatches in the interstices of the Quotidian, and dream of finding three uninterrupted quiet hours to think, moon, mentally maunder, and, above all, write. I am pursued by an anti-Muse; her name is Life. Her homely multisyllabic surname is often left unenunciated, but to certain initiates it may be whispered: Exigency.

I write in terror...I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.

The novella will be called, I think, "The Messiah of Stockholm." It takes place in Stockholm. I'd better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Rain could show up at your door and teach you how to dance.

What we wish for, dream and imagine is the very framework and foundation of everything we create

It's the small miracles that happen every day that keep us going. You just have to look for them and believe. ...said by Papa James in Homespun Hearts

The artist always plays to himself and I believe the audience seeing that one person can be free to express his thoughts, however strange they may seem, inspires the audience to feel that perhaps they too can freely express their innermost thoughts with impunity, joy, and release, and perhaps discover our common bond – unique yet so similar – with each other.

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

There is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Neither harsh reviews, the contempt of equals nor the indifference of superiors can affect those who have once tapped the great heart of suffering humanity and found out what a goldmine it is.

The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.

The creative act of the artist lifts him above himself by demanding full surrender. No one puts words on paper or paint on canvas, doubting. If one doubts, one does so five minutes later...

Poetry is the passionate pursuit of the real.

If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

I'm not as interested in dispensing knowledge on how to make a living ass I am in helping young people learn how to make a life...

Every great discovery or decision comes by an act of divination. Facts are fitted round afterwards.

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, And make them come true.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.