Quotes About Inspiration

Convirtió los fracasos de los otros en su propio triunfo.

Comprendía el poder cicatrizador de la belleza. Frente a un cuadro no somos juzgados, el intercambio es puro, la obra parece entender nuestro dolor y nos consuela a través del silencio, permanece en una eternidad fija y tranquilizadora, su único objetivo es colmarnos mediante las ondas de lo bello. Las tristezas se olvidan con Botticelli, los miedos se atenúan con Rembrandt y las penas se reducen con Chagall.

Sur le chemin du fauteuil, et sans trop savoir pourquoi, Hector repensa à un dicton croate qui disait qu'on rencontrait souvent les femmes de sa vie devant des livres. A priori, il y avait là un livre.

Peut-on se soigner en se confiant à un tableau ? On parle bien d'art-thérapie, de créer pour exprimer son malaise, pour se comprendre à travers les intuitions de l'inspiration. Mais c'était différent. Pour Antoine, la contemplation de la était un pansement sur la laideur. Il en avait toujours été ainsi. Quand il se sentait mal, il allait se promener dans un musée. Le merveilleux demeurait la meilleure arme contre la fragilité.

Michael] Callen and (...) one of his last interviews, with the documentary crew that had followed him to Ohio. "I realize some people could look at my life and say 'Oh, it was so sad. He died of AIDS and isn't that tragic.' But what I want to come through is that even after all the pain and all the torture, and even having AIDS, I can honestly say that being gay is the greatest gift I was ever given. I wouldn't change it for the world.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Those Greeks and Romans," he protested, "they are so overrated. They only said everything first. I've said just as good things myself. But they got in before me."3

Those Greeks and Romans," he protested, "they are so overrated. They only said everything first. I've said just as good things myself. But they got in before me.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

dont aom for success if u want it just do what u love n believe in and it wil come naturaly.

Calling brings freedom and fulfillment because it orients us toward something bigger than self.

Michael Swan-wick's Periodic Table of Science Fiction, short-shorts inspired by the periodic table of the elements.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

superb group of mind-mindful novelists at work today: Philip Roth and Martin Amis, Cynthia Ozick, Jenny Erpenbeck, John Banville, V. S. Naipaul, and J. M. Coetzee—to start.

May all your dreams but one come true, for what is life without a dream?

Drawing things makes them seem more real and makes me feel more alive. It also makes me pin down and remember things - landscapes, season, weather, occasions, incidents, people - that would otherwise have melted from my memory.

He never conquered polio, but he wrote a new narrative about his life that not only transformed him but won him the presidency.

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it.

We speak of God because he first spoke to us.

Syd always gets in there.

What are other people to us? Material. The stuff of our work. Whom do we love more, the girl or the portrait, the thing we've made of her? We artists, we're not quite human, are we? We love no one.

We will suggest that there is a reason why so many key Enlightenment thinkers insisted that their ideals of individual liberty and political equality were inspired by Native American sources and examples. Because it was true.