Quotes About Inspiration

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

I do not seek. I find.

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing

Pablo Picasso, last words

My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.

Los libros se hacen con lo que se tiene y no necesariamente con lo que se quiere.

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.

He was everything I wasn't. He was a lot of what I wanted to be.

My grandfather was a closet feminist. So

Resolve to emulate the deeds of all the sublime and noble-minded forefathers and follow the example of holy beings! (p. 111)

Yeshe Tsogyal was a woman: there may be some people who believe that only men can attain enlightenment, but her life is proof of the opposite. In actual fact, the awakened state of mind is neither male nor female.

One ordinary woman connected to an extraordinary God can make a difference

We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.

the heavens and the earth. In fact, that's the only big difference between Jesus

A belly laugh A toy from your childhood Your favorite song from high school The number 222 A beach ball A senior citizen in a fashionable hat A smile from a baby A billboard with a message for you

when it comes to being a writer: getting out of your own way, and getting rid of the countless negative thoughts that tell you what a hopelessly uninteresting specimen of humanity you are.

I have always believed that if I pay strict attention while I am out in the physical world—and for me that often meant the natural world—the physical world will give me everything I need to tell my stories" (78). —Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country