Quotes About Inspiration

All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

I'm sure there's some philosophy that says one of the best ways to deal with any of your problems is to take a deep breath and step away from them for a while, writing does this for me.

Your music has been a powerful vehicle for your philosophies.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

To be deprived of art and left alone with philosophy is to be close to Hell.

Analysis kills spontaneity.

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Philosophy can't build bridges, but can encourage people to cross them.

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

The creative mind is the playful mind. Philosophy is the play and dance of ideas.

Touch a man who can't walk up right, and that lame man, he's gonna fly.

I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Be the change that you want to see

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.