Quotes and Sayings about Inspiration

Act on inspiration when it strikes.

Success is one part inspiration, nine parts desperation.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.

Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.

Love is one of my main inspirations.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Art is a way of survival.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

Writing changed the world. Suddenly ideas didn't have to disappear just because the person whose head they were trapped in had died.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Stop moving, please - you'd make a great still-life.

He traded sand for skins, skins for gold, gold for life. In the end, he traded life for sand.

A man doesn't know his true strength until he fears for his life.

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Life changes faster than you think.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

Chips. All day. Every day.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

Without a moustache, a man isn't dressed well.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

I can literally say antisemitic shit and they can't drop me. Now what?

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

It may seem as the hardest thing in the world, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.