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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
- quote by Brenda Ueland
I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.
- quote by Fred White
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
- quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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.
- quote by Grandma Moses
I'm not a big fan of inspiration. I'm too old to sit and wait for the muse to give me a little kiss... I write a lot, and I'm not afraid to make mistakes or to write badly. I can alsways fix something weak and dull. But I can't fix a blank page.
- quote by Ron Koertge
- quote by Lois McMaster Bujold
If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.
- quote by Lois McMaster Bujold
Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.
- quote by Albert Pinkham Ryder
Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all. Gifted people need not, therefore, make a song and dance about being or supposing themselves superior. They simply happened to be born with that fortunate, subconscious equipment of theirs, and the mystery exists independently of intelligence or ambition.
- quote by Maurice Chevalier
Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.
- quote by Sri Aurobindo