Quotes About Inspiration

Do what you love and the business will follow.

The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

It was amazing, even, to think that the only thing left to people in their despair was reading.

De même, un livre qu'on aime, c'est avant tout un livre dont on aime l'auteur, qu'on a envie de retrouver, avec lequel on a envie de passer ses journées.

Je me suis souvenue, dit Cécile, que dans le temps tu recopiais des phrases sur un cahier, des phrases d'écrivains, celles que tu trouvais les plus belles.

It is ultimately annoying to live in the middle of a period of mediocrities – especially when one feels incapable of raising the level. I doubt if I will produce any new philosophy; I think I would already have given some signs of this at my age; but I am pretty sure that I would produce better novels if the thinking around me were a little more inspiring.

Un poète mort n'écrit plus. D'où l'importance de rester vivant.

In werkelijkheid bekommert God zich om ons, Hij denkt elk moment aan ons en geeft ons aanwijzingen, soms heel nauwkeurige. Die golven van liefde die in onze borst opwellen en ons de adem benemen, die ingevingen en extases, waar onze biologische natuur, onze eenvoudige primatenstatus geen verklaring voor kan bieden, zijn uitzonderlijk heldere tekenen.

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Está el Pelé hombre y el Pelé jugador. Para jugar como Pelé hay que jugar como Dios.

Les livres sont indispensables. La littérature est l'oxygène de l'âme.

Le propre de la création est de rendre l'impossible non seulement réel, mais nécessaire.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.