INSPIRATION

Quote: To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. Author: Arnold Bennett 1867-1931, British Novelist

Quote: The inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

Quote: When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration. Author: Robert Bresson 1907-, French Film Director

Quote: Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet

Quote: Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight. Author: William S. Burroughs 1914-1997, American Writer

Quote: There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

Quote: Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. Author: William Congreve 1670-1729, British Dramatist

Quote: Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. Author: Aaron Copland

Quote: The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation. Author: Comer Cotrell American Businessman, Founder of Pro-Line Corporation

Quote: Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. Author: Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister

Quote: Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist

Quote: The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. Author: William Feather 1888-18, American Writer, Businessman

Quote: Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Author: Johann Gottfried Von Herder 1744-1803, German Critic and Poet

Quote: I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing! Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author

Quote: The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Author: Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish Artist

Quote: You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

Quote: My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. Author: Cole Porter 1893-1964, American Composer, Lyricist

Quote: Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

Quote: An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: That which we do for ourselves we take to our graves, That which we do for others in this world lives on for enternity Author: PINE

Quote: If force doesnt work then your not using force Author: Malcom cooper

Quote: the difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that a pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opporutnities in problems Author: winston churchill prime minister

Quote: If you look over your left shoulder and it is saying to go this and your other shoulder is telling you to go the other way. Then just follow your heart and you will be ok Author: Anonymous Anonymous