Quotes About Inspiration

Jesus was such a powerful, "saving" Teacher because he was what he taught.

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.

We can only hope we leave behind persons whose lives are better for our having lived.

U umetnosti, stanje duse u kom se nalazimo cini tri cetvrtine posla; treba ga dakle negovati ako se zeli napraviti nesto veliko i trajno...

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.

I tried to make everything breathe in this painting: faith, quiet suffering, religious and primitive style, and great nature with its scream.

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: " How beautiful that is!

I find everything poetic, and it's in the corners of my heart which are sometimes mysterious that I catch a glimpse of poetry… I feel a sensation that leads me into a poetic state…

Don't paint from nature too much. Art is an abstraction. Derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, and think more of the creation that will result.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.

You are writing a Gospel, A chapter each day, By deeds that you do, By words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithless or true; Say, what is the Gospel According to you?

We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

The lives of Einstein and Schrödinger inform is that even the most brilliant scientists are human

Who will be the next Einstein? Will his ingenious contributions ever be surpassed? Is there anyone brilliant enough to complete his dream of a unified theory of nature?

That May, Einstein excitedly informed a friend, "In the tranquility of my sickness, I have laid a wonderful egg in the area of general relativity. Whether the bird that will hatch from it will be vital and long-lived only the gods know. So far I am blessing my sickness that has endowed me with it.

By introducing non-Euclidean geometry to theoretical physics, Einstein would transform the field in extraordinary ways. The twelve-year-old clutching the geometry book would have no ways of knowing that his very hands would someday rewrite physical laws in a way that made the book obsolete.

The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.

It is not great men who change the world, but weak men in the hands of a great God.

When God truly moves in your heart you cannot remain silent. There will be a fire in your bones, like Jeremiah, who said, "His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot." Jeremiah 20:9.

He liked to say that what makes literature is "inventing truly from honestly acquired knowledge, so that what you make up is truer than what you might remember.