Quotes About Inspiration

Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I cannot reach them, but I can look up, and see their beauty; believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

In ordering one's self aright one helps others to do the same.

Books are always good company if you have the right sort.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Love is a great beautifier.

I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.

I burned my life, that I might findA passion wholly of the mind,Thought divorced from eye and bone,Ecstasy come to breath alone.

I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.

You need some place to work in. That's the door half open.

No woman should be shame-faced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

It is not so much where my motivation comes from but rather how it manages to survive.

The colour blue - that is my colour - and the colour blue means you have left the drabness of day-to-day reality to be transported into - not a world of fantasy, it's not a world of fantasy - but a world of freedom where you can say what you like and what you don't like. This has been expressed forever by the colour blue, which is really sky blue.

I learned how to act by watching Martha Graham dance and I learned how to dance by watching Charles Chaplin act.

Writing is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent elimination.

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.

You can think of a lot of things to make out of nothing, if you have to.

If you have a simply swell story in mind, you can forget the rules. A swell story takes care of itself.

There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.