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Quotes About Inspiration

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
~ Philip Yancey
Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.
~ Frans Lanting
A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.
~ Rufus Wilmot Griswold
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
~ Henry James
A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
~ Jacob Bronowski
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
~ Edwidge Danticat
True art is the intermediary between man's ordinary nature and his higher potentialities.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.
~ Eugene Delacroix
Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
~ William Wordsworth
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
~ Wallace Stevens
Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.
~ William Wordsworth
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.
~ Gustavo Perez Firmat
How I want to see the mountains, rivers, sunshine, and ruined fortresses! Let the wind course over us until we become beautiful
~ Mian Mian, Candy
My views about God come from my dad. Dad told me that he believed Nature, which to him included humankind, to be so beautiful, so magnificent, that there had to be something behind it all.
~ Al Franken
Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
~ John Henry Newman
It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.
~ Michael Franti
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
~ Paul Cezanne
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
~ Brett Dennen
Nature constantly imitates art.
~ Oscar Wilde
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
~ Oscar Wilde
The majesty of creation forms my faith in the Creator.
~ Anthony D. Williams
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
~ Shmuel Yosef Agnon