Afflatus Quotes & Sayings

Academic envelope serves only to protect everything the story says and does not say, an inner afflatus always on the verge of being dispersed at contact with the air, the echo of a vanished knowledge revealed in the penumbra and in tacit allusions. Torn — Italo Calvino

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars. — Daniel Radcliffe

These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest chimeras, go down in the end in agony, but leave behind a record of new heights scaled and new rewards won for all mankind; the vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again. — Evelyn Waugh

I sit back up and try to banish such thoughts from my mind. They're stickier than I expect. — DelSheree Gladden

Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to the minds and hearts of men. — Richard Beckham II

Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops. — Wayne Dyer

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously.
"Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are. — Cassandra Clare

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau

If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game. — Magnus Scheving

Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint? — Walter J. Phillips

Your mind is a book; God is the pen. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing. — Manolo Blahnik

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it. — Cy Twombly

It is a rule of creative ability that it does nothing of any value, while it is possessed by this afflatus of vanity. — Christina Stead

Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting. — Thomas Huxley