Inspiration

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." ~ Thomas Edison

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!" ~ Barry Hannah

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation. ~ Comer Cotrell

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Love is a constant source of inspiration, surprise, and wonderment. ~ Gloria Estefan

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~ Jack London

Inspiration follows aspiration. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. ~ Claude Monet

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can! ~ Melissa Etheridge

"All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols." ~ Igor Stravinsky

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. ~ Ella Fitzgerald

I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. ~ J. D. Salinger

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury. ~ Franz Liszt

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. ~ Ned Rorem

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dares to take the openhearted and courageous way, many others follows. ~ Marian Anderson

"Listen to the voices." ~ William Faulkner

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. ~ Brendan Francis

No art was ever less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament I know nothing. ~ Edgar Degas

Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought. ~ Robert Browning, A Death in the Desert

As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me. ~ Bebe Moore Campbell

Do not quech your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ~ Vincent Van Gogh