Quotes About Inspiration

And there it was: setting, conflict, climax, and resolution. As silly as it seemed, it met the requirements of the heart and it matched the facts of reality

Es verdad lo que Steven Pressfield dice: hay una fuerza que se opone a lo bello que hay en el mundo y muchísimos nos estamos rindiendo. Robert McKee afirma al final de su libro que el mundo necesita que seamos valientes. El mundo requiere que escribamos algo mejor.

People will always choose a story that helps them survive and thrive.

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

Learn something new every day.

The future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. The future belongs to the people who follow their heart no matter what the critics say, because they truly believe in their vision.

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Leaders need to have a fire in their heart, and a good reason for being—the

I guess it's about trust. Trusting what you feel. Trusting the person who inspired those feelings with the weight of them and all they could mean.

Beauty was where you found it, and it was always comforting to see.

Henry James escribió Los papeles de Aspern

am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, 'as free as the road, as loose as the wind.'" Brunetti

As a musician, he was as close to perfection as a man could come. It was worth putting up with the man to be able to work with the musician.

isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?

It's crazy, she'd said, but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better way to go insane.)

I] thought of that line from The Iliad I love so much, about Pallas Athene and the terrible eyes shining.

I've been thinking a lot about what Hobie said: about those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

And isn't the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?

Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves our of despair.

La morte è la madre della bellezza» disse Henry. «E cos'è la bellezza?» «Terrore.»

Because--the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times ... Still with greatness, there's a jolt at the end of the wire. It doesn't matter how often you grab hold of the line, or how many people have grabbed hold of it before you. It's the same line. Fallen from a higher life. It still carries some of the same shock.

Books are written by the alone for the alone.

Because: if our secret defines us, as opposed to the face we show the world: then the painting was the secret that raised me above the surface of life and enabled me to know who I am. And it's there: in my notebooks, every page, even though it's not. Dream and magic, magic and delirium. The Unified Field Theory. A secret about a secret.

Everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary