Quotes About Inspiration

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.

The visions you glorify in your mind, The ideals you enthrone in your heart.. This you will build your life by... This you will become.

I have lots of ideas. How do I pick the right one? Execute on as many as possible. The right idea will pick you.

Per questo ho detto che Marcellino pane e vino è il cinema della morale cattolica. Infatti, Marcellino è tutto negli occhi.

Truth is always fascinating because it always lies in beauty.

Non è una «cosa» la grazia, la grazia è una presenza;

Identifico in questo cuore ciò che ho chiamato esperienza elementare: qualcosa cioè che tende a indicare compiutamente l'impeto originale con cui l'essere umano si protende sulla realtà, cercando di immedesimarsi con essa, attraverso la realizzazione di un progetto, che alla realtà stessa detti l'immagine ideale che lo stimola dal di dentro.

I would love to spend all my time writing to you I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

I dreamed of a hummingbird made of sky.

God has worker's hands. Just remember—angels carry no harps. Angels carry hammers.

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

I believe in an "emotional architecture." It is very important for human kind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.

Without the desire for God, our planet would be a sorry wasteland of ugliness.

I've always believed that the imagination is a spiritual quality that, like memory, can be trained and developed.)

sobre García Lorca) Podía leer cualquier cosa, y la belleza brotaba siempre de sus labios. Tenía pasión, alegría, juventud. Era como una llama.

More than anything else, surrealism was a kind of call heard by certain people everywhere—in the United States, in Germany, Spain, Yugoslavia—who, unknown to one another, were already practicing instinctive forms of irrational expression.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

Not every poem is a great poem, but there is something great in every poem.