Quotes About Inspiration

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Architecture is invention.

My work is not about 'form follows function ' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Não é o ângulo reto que me atrai. Nem a linha reta, dura, inflexível, criada pelo homem. O que me atrai é a curva livre e sensual.

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

Art is the most intense form of individualism that the world has known.