• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 186 reads

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• The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 69 reads

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• There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.0 · 17 votes · 96 reads

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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.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  3.5 · 37 votes · 85 reads

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• When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 107 reads

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• When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

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  Richard Bach

  WriterAmerican1936 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 182 reads

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• Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

  

  Johannes Brahms

  MusicianGerman1833 · 19th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 191 reads

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• Write while the heat is in you. The Writerwho postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 134 reads

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• You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 82 reads

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