“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.” PeopleKnowsInspirationUsedForgetKnow HowPaintingPaintUsed To BeForget Everything Author:Grandma Moses
“Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.” IfsWritingTwoInspirationUsedHoursInvolvedMerePlanningBeachProfessorsClassroomLectures Book:The Courage to Create Source: The Courage to Create
“If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.” IfsGivingInspirationUsedSufferingFaithOpportunityWishCausesChristFireSacrificeDesignHolyCrossesCharitySaintWoodsChristian InspirationalBoundlessKindlesGreat DesignGreat Sacrifice Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.” WantInspirationalShouldInspirationUsedMagicGeniusNotionWandsMagic Wands Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.” InspirationFormUsedArtistWishRichPossibilityCleanLandscapeColourInherentBeggingCrisps Author:Franklin Carmichael
“I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.” WantKindInspirationUsedProcessStiles Author:Brett Dennen
“Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.” InspirationUsedIntelligentAgingTimber Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one” IfsInspirationUsedBabyChimpanzees Author:Candice Bergen
“After having my baby I felt like I'd been introduced to my life, I slowed down, I paid more attention to simple things, I addressed a few issues in my own life, I even got married, I looked at what was important and what wasn't, and so I used that experience for inspiration.” ImportantInspirationUsedFeltMy OwnSimpleAttentionIssuesBabyMarriedPaidMy Own LifeSimple ThingsMy Baby Author:Cecelia Ahern
“When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.” MomentsInspirationUsedArtistTakenHugeHappeningsPopsBoredFormulasPop Art Author:Katy B
“I worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."” PeopleInspirationUsedNumbersMillionsProjectsCrowds Author:Luis von Ahn
“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLifeInspirationUsedMotivationBusinessToleranceBeing WeirdWeird StuffGreat Beatles Author:Paul McCartney
“You can draw inspiration from anything. If you're a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you're casually talking to says something that makes you so mad - you can create an entire scenario around that.” IfsGivingLooksInspirationUsedGuyGirlTalkingDrawsDatingMadDirtyStorytellerScenariosFlirtationNew Girl Author:Taylor Swift