Inspirational Quotes

Everyone needs inspiration!  Here's a small collection of some great quotes:

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 accomplishmen~Anna Pavlova

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises. ~Leontyne Price

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

I have never found...an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing-desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake. ~Washington Irving

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! ~D.H. Lawrence

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. ~Anna Freud

Go out on a limb -- that's where the fruit is. ~Will Rogers