Quotes About Inspiration

Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Why are we here on earth? To create. It's in our nature.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist.

A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us.

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.

The cat is nature's masterpiece.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

We cannot express the light in nature because we have not the sun. We can only express the light we have in ourselves.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.

There is little man has made that approaches anything in nature, but a sailing ship does. There is not much man has made that calls to all the best in him, but a sailing ship does.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.