Robert Louis Stevenson on inspiration

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say “give them up,” for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan1934–1996Cosmos (1980), p. 4

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Pablo Picasso1881–1973

• Work

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834“A Day-Dream”, l. 1 (1828)

• Sleep