Quotes About Inspiration

Aspiro alle stelle che non posso raggiungere.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? If you hear a voice within saying 'You are not a painter' then by all means paint – and that voice will be silenced.

Dar din tulburarea de nedescris a sufletului meu a È›âÈ™nit în mine o idee, aidoma unei lumini str?lucitoare în noapte: cine se poate resemna s? se resemneze, dar, dac? eÈ™ti în stare s? crezi, atunci crede! ?i m-am ridicat de jos, nu ca un om resemnat, ci ca un credincios È™i n-am mai avut alt gând decât: ea, nimeni alta.

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of stars makes me dream

But when shallI ever get round to doing the starry sky, that picture which is always on my mind?

To me, that book has been both a revelation and a gospel.

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes

You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas, which says to the painter, 'You can't do a thing'.

Biliyorsun, ÅŸakay?k çiçeÄŸi Jeannine'ndir, hatmi çiçeÄŸi Quost'a aittir, ayçiçeÄŸi de galiba biraz benim...

If the emotions are sometimes so strong that one works without knowing one works, when sometimes the strokes come with a continuity and a coherence like words in a speech or a letter, then one must remember that it has not always been so, and that in time to come there will again be hard days, empty of inspiration. So one must strike while the iron is hot, and put the forged bars on one side.

One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

Painters understand nature & love her & teach us to see.

Mi occorre anche una notte stellata con dei cipressi

I'm getting on well here, I've got a lovely home & I'm finding it very pleasurable taking a look at London & the English way of life & the English people themselves, & then I've got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn't enough, what is?

One night I went for a walk by the sea along the empty shore. It was not gay, but neither was it sad; it was- beautiful. The deep blue sky was flicked with clouds of a blue deeper than the fundamental blue of intense cobalt, and others of a clearer blue, like the blue whiteness of the Milky Way. On the blue depth the stars were sparkling, greenish, yellow, white, rose, brighter, flashing more like jewels than they do even in Paris. The sea was a very deep ultramarine.

You may know that the peony is Jeannin's, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way.

For one's own work, thoughts and observation are not enough, we need the comfort and blessing and guidance of a higher power, and that is something anyone who is at all serious and who longs to lift up his soul to the light is sure to recognize and experience. Pining for God works like leaven on dough.

pareceu-me que você, assim como eu, estava sofrendo por ver sua juventude passar em brancas nuvens; mas se ela nasce e ressurge no que fazemos, nada está perdido e a capacidade de trabalhar é uma nova juventude.

Pois às vezes é diabolicamente duro ficar totalmente fora da pintura e do mundo dos pintores e não ver nada dos outros.

Contudo já seria consolador se soubéssemos que virá uma geração de artistas mais felizes