“I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is; I've heard about it, but I never saw it.” KnowsInspirationSawsHeard Author:William Faulkner
“And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.” MenMomentsInspirationNightFaithAsksVoiceWalksVisionBoysSawsHeardSeaCryMouthsLettersWesternWoodsOpeningTheeIreland Author:Saint Patrick
“The Ancient Romans did not regard acts of genius to emanate from within an individual - but rather saw it as a collaboration between a spirit of creativity and a human being. So it could be that sometimes an individual had that power, that divine inspiration, or other times not. The spirit might have moved on to some other lucky soul.” HumansSoulSometimesInspirationMightSpiritIndividualHuman BeingsCreativitySawsDivineGeniusLuckyRegardMovedAncientCollaborationMoved OnEmanateDivine Inspiration Author:Liz Garbus
“For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space.” WorldFirstsKindInspirationMotivationSpaceSawsFirst TimeOur WorldFragileBlacknessIndestructible Author:Brian Cox
“In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.” ThinkingKnowsIdeasInspirationKidsEvilWatchesSawsNo IdeaRemakesEvil Dead Author:Fede Alvarez
“Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.” WritingDifferentSometimesInspirationMy OwnSituationSawsSceneMy FriendsDifferent PlaceMy Own Life Author:Taylor Swift
“I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.” PeopleFirstsInspirationGovernmentRunningBlackSawsWalkingFirst TimePlanesBlack PeopleStewardess Author:Fannie Lou Hamer