Inspiration Quotes
I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.
In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival.
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.
I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.
A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
I've always thought that a woman owes it to herself to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity.
Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.
Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.
When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.
There wasn't a better teacher or mentor out there than Reggie White, on or off the field.
When we postpone the harvest, the fruit rots, but when we postpone our problems, they keep on growing.