Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. ~ Thomas Edison

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, "Listen to this!" ~ Barry Hannah

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation. ~ Comer Cotrell

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. ~ Igor Stravinsky

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

If I think, everything is lost. ~ Paul Cézanne

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~ Jack London

Inspiration follows aspiration. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. ~ Claude Monet

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can! ~ Melissa Etheridge

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. ~ Virgil

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