What is Inspiration?
What is Inspiration?
“Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.” -Brendan Francis Behan
When inspiration strikes you, do not delay in turning ideas into reality. Your dream will come when you put to work the strength of your mind, your senses, your back. It is easy to procrastinate and put off but that just makes getting started even harder. Inspiration will not linger while you hem and haw.
“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
-Frank Tibolt
Action is ideas in motion. Creative facilities are contingent upon the ability to construct what the mind has envisioned. This works in all mediums. If inspiration is not felt, work anyway. It might be that the next spark will occur as you put paint to brush or pen to paper. It might not but odds are that if you are engaged in the act of creation, something is already working in a deeper way. Inspiration occurs on a deeper level like the act of creation.
” An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. “ -Arnold H. Glasow
Physics demands this. I believe that there are eternally huge spaces contained within your brain cells and it is beyond what we think we know. We have not the power to recreate easily what our minds can easily perceive.
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.” -Henry David Thoreau
All these quotes stress the action of doing. This is where inspiration comes from. To wait and make a note to do something when the time to work is just at that point, where you want to put it down and quit. You will be inspired, you will be motivated, you will be an artist.
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