Quotes About Inspiration

I believe in writing — nothing else; just writing. Man may live like a worm, but he writes like a god. There was a time when that secret was known, but now it has been forgotten; the world is composed of disintegrating fragments, an incoherent dark chaos, sustained by writing alone.

the confines of prison walls cannot impose boundaries on the flights of one's fantasy

The thing about all my food is that everything is a remembered flavor. Maybe it's something I had as a child or maybe it's something I had in Milan, but I want it to taste better than you ever thought.

What I love about stories the most is the power they have to teach us of possibilities that might not occur to us without them.

Virtues are no less contagious than vices.

We needed no Shakespeare to feel -- though, perhaps, like the rest of the world, we needed him to express it.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

My commitment is my symbol, my vision my standard, and for this vision, my commitment!

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.

Change your thinking and you can change your life. Once you have a vision of how you want your life to be you can start living your dream.

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Vivere meravigliandosi. [...] Scrivere meravigliandosi.

Estar permanentemente en las palabras, quieras o no, estar siempre vivo, lleno de palabras por la vida, como si las palabras estuviesen vivas, como si la vida fuera palabra.

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate. – Anonymous

the letter the young composer

I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don't like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, genetaring and degenerating itself.

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Breakthrough to Creativity.

To a large extent, creativity is self-generated in areas of the mind beyond or beneath the individual's willful, conscious control. All he can do is discipline his consciousness to accommodate the needs of the creative process.

To be attached to one's dreams and yet to advocate reality constituted no contradiction in Chagall's eyes.

and I am quite sure that they are worth being painted.