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Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort.

Eric Hoffer Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

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.

Grandma Moses

I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Phil Plait

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists.

Wisława Szymborska The Poet and the World (1996)

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Albert Einstein

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time.

Lois McMaster Bujold Falling Free (1988)

My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

Joe Satriani

You who are sitting before me
have the power to
change my consciousness
into painting, poem, melody
or anything else!

Suman Pokhrel

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognised for some time.

Samuel Butler The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912)

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

Jack London

I always urged my contemporaries to look for interest and inspiration to the development and study of drawing, but they would not listen. They thought the road to salvation lay by the way of colour.

Edgar Degas

Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity.

Rudolf Rocker Anarcho-Syndicalism (1938)

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better — when you can get it.

Lois McMaster Bujold Young Miles (1997)

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

Wherever we are, God's in that moment, God's speaking to us, and if we've just got our ears open and our antennas up, there's no lack of inspiration. He's not silent. We just have to be listening.

Steven Curtis Chapman

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.

Amy Tan

It is with just that hope that we welcome everything that tends to strengthen the fibre and develop the nature on more sides. When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

Margaret Fuller

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair

Robert Hunter Terrapin Station (1977)

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