Everybody needs a little inspiration sometimes. Whether you're an artist or a scientist, you will eventually find yourself in search for inspiration to motivate you to create. Here are some quotes I have collected -- I hope they give you a boost when you need it.
Art does not consist of making a living or producing an objet d'art or in self-therapy, but in finding a new soul. ~Henry Miller
You have to care so much that you can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't talk to people...You can't do it without passion. ~Agnes de Mille
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our ability do not exist. ~Teilhard de Chardin
Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are not days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open...whether you choose to take an art class, keep a journal, record your dreams, dance your story, or live each day from your own creative source, above all else, keep the channel open! ~Martha Graham
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. ~Virginia Woolf
Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ~Dame Margot Fonteyn
The devil himself always seems to get into my inkstand, and I can only exorcise him by pensful at a time. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
My favorite thing is to go where I've never been. ~Diane Arbus
Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain. ~Kahlil Gibran
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To follow without halt, one aim; there is the secret of success. And success? What is it? I do not find it in the applause of the theater. It lies rather in the satisfaction of accomplishment.
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