Quotes about Inspiration
Who but a brazen crazy person would go one-on-one with blank paper or canvas armed with nothing but ideas?
— Mark Vonnegut
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle.
— Martha Graham
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
— Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id 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 will be lost.
— Martha Graham
No artist is pleased.... there is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
— Martha Graham
There is a vitality, a life force, 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 will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable it is nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.
— Martha Graham
No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissastifaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
— Martha Graham
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
— Martin Luther
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
— Martin Luther
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now; I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, I've. Seen the promised Land.... So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried a out anything, I'm not fearing any man
— Martin Luther
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
— Martin Luther
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
— Martin Luther