Quotes About Inspiration

Really, if it were not for Joan of Arc, I would think that girls are completely useless

Barthes me lisait, donc on s'est rencontrés.

We were supposed to be an English literature class, but Miss Nesbitt used literature to teach real life. She said she didn't have time to teach us like a regular English teacher--we were too far behind. Instead, she taught us the world through literature.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.

A)rt is like bread, an essential ingredient for nourishing the soul.

Lyra marveled at the effect hope could have.

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

Go gently into the day. Honor your idealism, resist cynicism. Keep your heart open to the world, try and make the world better. Don't give up.

If you need to be rescued by someone, become that someone yourself. Become Princess Charming. She is you.

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

You don't make art, you find it

To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present it must not be considered at all. The art of the Greeks, of the Egyptians, of the great painters who lived in other times, is not an art of the past; perhaps it is more alive today that it ever was.

Inspiration exists but it must find you working.

We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realise the truth

Los buenos artistas copian, los grandes roban.

Todos los niños nacen artistas. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista cuando creces.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso

Les bons artistes empruntent, les grands artistes volent.

Writers, of course, are obliged by our professions to spend much of our time going nowhere. Our creations come not when we're out in the world, gathering impressions, but when we're sitting still, turning those impressions into sentences. Our job, you could say, is to turn, through stillness, a life of movement into art. Sitting still is our workplace, sometimes our battlefield.

Et puis quoi, qu'importe la culture ? Quand il a écrit Hamlet, Molière avait-il lu Rostand ? Non.

C'est la nature avant tout qui doit nous inspirer car elle est la seule garante véritable de notre pérennité. Sans elle, aucun projet n'est assuré d'un lendemain.

God exists only if adored Time is nothing if one has not dreamed (Painting)

On sait à peu près pourquoi une Å"uvre est mauvaise. Mais bien moins pourquoi elle est bonne.

poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality. (cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)