"Do not quech your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Great composers do not set down to work because they are inspired, but become inspired because they are working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day in his figures. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration. ~ Ernest Newman
Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves! ~ Robert Browning
The most beautiful thing in the world is the conjunction of learning and inspiration. ~ Wanda Landowski
All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual toward freedom. ~ Albert Einstein, IBD, 9/6/06