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To the artist
is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which
serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where
previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a
living truth! At moments we are all artists.
-- Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British Novelist
The
inspiration of the almighty gives man understanding.
-- Bible
Sacred Scriptures of
Christians and Judaism
When you do
not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the
best -- that is inspiration.
-- Robert Bresson
1907-, French Film Director
Stung by the
splendor of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet
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Out of the
closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural
monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and
film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the
inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light,
sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist.
They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A
bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that
imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless,
total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.
-- William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer
There never
was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician
Invention
flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds
brown study.
-- William Congreve
1670-1729, British Dramatist
Inspiration
may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of
subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the
antithesis of self-consciousness.
-- Aaron Copland
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