Quotes About Inspiration

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

I'm trying to transmit the visions of creativity and build institutions that are incredibly catalytic to their fields.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another.

Therapists tell their patients: Follow your envy—it shows you what you want.

Follow your envy - it shows what you want

on the screen. Maybe in this way, he is a psychiatrist to many—and maybe his bravery in writing about his own loss had inspired me to write about mine.

creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's

once heard creativity described as being the ability to grasp the essence of one thing and the essence of some very different thing and smash them together to create some entirely new thing. That's what therapists do too.

We read to learn about the world. We write to change the world.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you have a writer's voice, one day it will shout out, 'I can do that too!

I love myself just the way I am. I can do anything I believe i can. My positive thoughts make me feel good. Just the way know I should.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry?

Sister Ignatius taught me in Sunday School that "in the beginning there was light," but to me, it was always an incomplete sentence, which God should have known to ammend: in the beginning God created light...to read by.

There are all kinds of stars in God's skies. Some are so bright and twinkly they take your breath away; and others don't shine so brightly but they're still tehre. Thier light's just a little softer, that's all.:

Well, why not shoot for it? she thought. That moon's there as much for me as for anybody.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

Perhaps I will be a great man...I mean perhaps I will hold on to the substance of truth and find my way always with the right course

There's no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it'd be rather boring.

Ella] Era la luna y las estrellas. El sol y la lluvia. Más que gustarme ella, me gustaba cómo me sentía cuando estaba con ella. Me volvía optimista, invencible. Más amable, más bondadoso. Ella sacaba lo mejor de mí.» (De la traducción castellana, por Amparo Sánchez)