Inspiration Quotes

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

~ Colleen Atwood

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

~ Norman Lindsay

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

~ Bob Marley

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

~ Thomas A. Edison

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

~ Socrates

My inspiration comes from my real life experiences.

~ Lilly Singh

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

~ Eric Alterman

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

~ Arne Jacobsen

I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

~ Shakira

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

~ Ronald Reagan