Blog post Number 500 for the year, so I’m good with spreading a little Quote Box love around:
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? – Ludwig van Beethoven
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King
I can’t always reach the image in my mind… almost never, in fact… so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it. — Chuck Close
Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. — Johannes Brahms
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all. — Rita Mae Brown
People who are not artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don’t have time to be inspired. — John Cage
Going upstairs now to see if I can figure out what the heck my main character needs to do to finish this tale before November first.
