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Inspiration8 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Let frustration fuel inspiration. — Sonia Boyce · 2015Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work. — Chuck CloseSteal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write. — Toni Morrison · 1981All 8 quotes →Creativity3 quotes
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017I by no means owe my works to my own wisdom alone, but to a thousand things and persons around me, who provided me with material. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Activism1 quote
Let frustration fuel inspiration. — Sonia Boyce · 2015Art1 quote
Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work. — Chuck CloseArtistic development1 quote
Let frustration fuel inspiration. — Sonia Boyce · 2015Artistic process1 quote
Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work. — Chuck CloseBorrowing and creativity1 quote
Steal old stuff. — Austin Kleon · 2017Creative process1 quote
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write. — Toni Morrison · 1981Effects of travel1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Hard work1 quote
Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work. — Chuck CloseImagination1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Influences1 quote
I by no means owe my works to my own wisdom alone, but to a thousand things and persons around me, who provided me with material. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1832Legacy1 quote
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Motivation1 quote
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1838Rome1 quote
It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed fryars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind. — Edward Gibbon · 1794Self-discipline1 quote
Inspiration is for amateurs-the rest of us just show up and get to work. — Chuck CloseTravel1 quote
Imagination labors best in distant fields. — Mark Twain · 1869Writing1 quote
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write. — Toni Morrison · 1981