Quotes About Inspiration

The steps we take in faith activate the power of the Spirit.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night by a few men I never knew.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Musicians don't retire they stop when there's no more music in them.

It's very rare that a character comes to mind complete in himself. He needs additional traits that I often pick from actual people. One way you can cover your tracks is to change the sex.

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.

The older I get the more I realize that the only thing a teacher has to go on is that rare spark in a boy's eye. And when you see that, Brian, you're an ass if you worry where it comes from. Whether it's an ode of Horace or an Icelandic saga or something that goes bang in a laboratory.

Christians who take without distinction, as divinely inspired, every spontaneous impression and every more or less developed interior reaction of their own spirit face to face with the divine Word are in greater danger than anyone else of stifling the Spirit by confusing him with their own unconscious caricature.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

Het mooie van onze verbeelding is voor ons, die geen menschen van doen zijn, de troost van ons leven.

Richting geven aan je leven. Weinigen denken om richting. Doel voor energieken, richting voor de slapperen... Zelve moet je je richting vinden, geef aan je leven een mooie richting, een edel rhytme, vind het pad, want dat is alles...

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Isn't it too bad Walt Disney didn't live to see this?" "He did see it," Vance replied simply. "That's why it's here.

Creativity is merely the arrangement of existing forms into new relationships.

Why settle for the ordinary when the extraordinary is only a little dreaming and doing away?

and just as the first Imagineers adopted techniques and practices from animation and movie-making to develop the craft of Imagineering, we can borrow (and steal) principles, practices, and processes from Imagineering and apply them in other creative endeavors.

Blue Sky is the stage where you develop a vision to address that Need and identify what you're going to create. Put another way, the objective of the Blue Sky stage is to create a vision with enough detail to be able to explain, present, and sell it to others.

Walt Disney defined Imagineering as the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how. I like