Quotes About Inspiration

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

The nature of having ideas and creativity is incredibly inspiring.

You see nature and then you try to emulate it.

Art is stronger than Nature

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.

If people looked at the stars each night, they'd live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

I am inclined by nature to be optimistic about the capacity of a person to rise higher than he or she has thought possible once interest and ambition are aroused.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

We cannot teach a flower how to grow, we can only learn from it.

Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.