Quotes about Inspiration

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.

I remembered what you had said to me on that wonderful evening we first dined together, about the search for beauty being the real secret of life…

Nothing really at any period of my life was ever of the smallest importance to me compared with Art. But in the case of an artist, weakness is nothing less than a crime, when it is a weakness that paralyses the imagination

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.

He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair.

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

The only real people are the people who never existed, and if a novelist is base enough to go to life for his personages he should at least pretend that they are creations, and not boast of them as copies.

I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.