Quotes About Inspiration

We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.

Beauty is a free spirit and will not be trapped within the grid of intentionality.

Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to follow its path.

All thinking that is imbued with wonder is graceful and gracious thinking.

In the light and reverence of blessing, a person or situation becomes illuminated in a completely new way. In a dead wall a new window opens, in dense darkness a path starts to glimmer, and into a broken heart healing falls like morning dew. It

Imagination is the most reverent mirror of the soul.

Indeed, a book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

Beauty cannot be forced. It alone decides when it will come and sometimes it is the last thing we expect and the very last thing to arrive. Creative artists know this well. Great skill and inspiration set the context or scene where beauty might emerge. But it is not the mind of the artist alone that can determine whether beauty will arrive or not.

ordinary becomes extraordinary when filled with

Think greatly of the greatness of God.

Our unction, therefore, is the communication of the Holy Spirit, and nothing else.

A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

All great art is praise.

The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

If some people see angels where others only see empty space, let them paint the angels; only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.

It is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words, than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world.

A book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or beautifully helpful

we shall be led as much to the street and the cottage as to the temple and the tower; and shall be more interested in buildings raised by feeling

you never will love art well, till you love what she mirrors better

Beautiful art can only be produced by people who have beautiful things about them.