Quotes About Inspiration

Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.

The impression is for the writer what experiment is for the scientist, with the difference that in the scientist the work of the intelligence precedes the experiment and in the writer it comes after the impression.

But, less disappointing than life is, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

You can make a new version of what you love only by renouncing it.

Marcel Proust

Une œuvre est à la fois le souvenir de nos amours passées et la prophétie de nos amours nouvelles

Et elle m'a répondu textuellement : « Il faut toujours dire une chose comme si on était en train de la composer soi-même. » Si vous y réfléchissez c'est monumental, cette réponse !

She would make me tell her, too, all about the poems that I meant to compose. And these dreams reminded me that, since I wished, some day, to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I was going to write.

She has an astral quality, even something quite vatic. You grasp my meaning—the poet veering toward the status of priest.

Si j'avais vos dispositions, je crois bien que j'écrirais du matin au soir

You have a soul in you of rare quality, an artist's nature; never let it starve for lack of what it needs.

just as Eve was created from a rib of Adam, so a woman would come into existence while I was sleeping, conceived from some strain in the position of my limbs. Formed

tout cela qui prend forme et solidité, est sorti, ville et jardins, de ma tasse de thé.

And thinking again of the sameness of Vinteuil's works, I explained to Albertine that the great men of letters have never created more than a single work, or rather have never done more than refract through various media an identical beauty which they bring into the world.

Victor Hugo, ?öyle der: Çimenler uzamal?, çocuklar ölmeli mutlaka. Ben diyorum ki, sanat?n ac?mas?z yasas? uyar?nca, insanlar?n, kendimizin, ?st?rab?n her türünü tatt?ktan sonra ölmesi gerekir ki, unutu?un de?il, ebedî hayat?n çimleri, verimli eserlerin gür otlar? uzas?n, gelecek nesiller ne?e içinde, alt?nda uyuyanlara ald?rmadan gelip "k?rda yemek"lerini yiyebilsinler.

É que toda vez que queremos imitar alguma coisa que se passou realmente, esquecemos que essa coisa foi produzida não pela vontade de imitar, mas por uma força inconsciente e, por sua vez, real.

Our social existence, like an artist's studio, is filled with abandoned sketches.

but whenever I thought about them I pictured them to myself either in tapestry, as was the 'Coronation of Esther' which hung in our church,

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Les grands littérateurs n'ont jamais fait qu'une seule oeuvre.

What is utterly detestable is the Victor Hugo of the last stage, the Légende des Siècles, I forget all their names. But in the Feuilles d'Automne, the Chants du Crépuscule, there's a great deal that's the work of a poet, a true poet! Even in the Contemplations,

Bizim için büyülü anahtarlar? olan içimizdeki derin, nüfuz edemeyece?imiz yerlerin kap?lar?n? açan yol gösterici oldu?u sürece, okuman?n ya?am?m?zdaki rolü sa??lt?c?d?r.

la tía Lala decía que ella

Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there's no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn't matter if you are alive or dead.