Inspiration Quotes

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. (Pablo Picasso)
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. View quote
Socrates
Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration! View quote
Thomas Edison
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. View quote
Jack London
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
We don't have education we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool. View quote
Bob Marley
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. View quote
Charles de Lint
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. View quote
Israel Zangwill
The composer does not sit around and wait for an inspiration to walk up and introduce itself...Making music is actually little else than a matter of invention aided and abetted by emotion. In composing we combine what we know of music with what we feel. View quote
George Gershwin
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. View quote
Amy Tan
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. (Rita Mae Brown)
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Inspiration comes of working every day. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. View quote
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. View quote
Eileen Caddy
If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you. View quote
Jennifer Egan
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. View quote
Ella Fitzgerald
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness. (Aaron Copland)
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. View quote
Benjamin Spock
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. View quote
Georg Brandes
In life you need either inspiration or desperation. View quote
Anthony Robbins
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. View quote
Eric Clapton