Quotes About Inspiration

Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate Gershwin?

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.

Ted Turner is still a leader. And he sets a great example. His ability financially has been reduced, but his influence and his example still is an important asset to the whole environmental movement.

la fantasía, ¿sabes?, es la única cualidad humana que no está sujeta a las miserias de la realidad.

Mauricio Salles Vasconcelos

Authors with a mortgage never get writer's block. –

Fiction is largely the process of writers solving problems of their own creation.

And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

The modern conservative movement was inspired by Barry Goldwater's canonical text from 1960, The Conscience of a Conservative.

Einstein would be one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time even if he had not written a single line on relativity.

awakened her.

There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

We sat outside the studio at night, among a few candles, and closed our eyes for a minute. After that, we jammed straight from our hearts. We didn't play for ourselves, but for the ones no longer with us in flesh, but always with us in spirit. God bless. Until we meet again. Soul fly... fly free

Nem mindig hittem hogy er? fakadhat egy összetört szívb?l, vagy az isteni ösvény meglátható a tragédiában. De most már hiszem.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it, I did the thing in life I wanted to do - Writing.