Quotes About Inspiration

Nature; it always inspires me. Living in New York, it can get quite stressful sometimes, so on the weekends, I like to go hiking.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

To me, Hillary [Clinton] looks alright. She looks like the kind of woman I admire. She doesn't seem to have distorted her essential nature.

Beauty- it was a glorious gift of nature.

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

I'm a big believer in human nature.

For nature then to me was all in all.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

Mathematicians are inexorably drawn to nature, not just describing what is to be found there, but in creating echoes of natural laws.

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

At this moment, the story in his head was perfect. He also knew from experience that it would degenerate the second he started typing, because such was the nature of writing.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

Sensibility is nature's celestial spring.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.

Background for Humans

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'