`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

Incurably optimistic, dogmatic, and utterly fearless, in his youth a devout Baptist, in spite of his friendship for the Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier ( 1807-1892 ) he eventually attacked the orthodox churches for what he deemed their cowardly compromising on the slavery issue and in his invariably ardent manner was emphatically unorthodox and denied the plenary inspiration of the Bible.

Algeria has always been a source of inspiration for different painters who tried to immortalize the prodigious diversity of the sites it offers and the profusion of the facets that passes its population, which offers for Orientalists between the 19 < sup > th </ sup > century and the 20 < sup > th </ sup > century, a striking inspiration for a very rich artistic creation like Eugène Delacroix with his famous painting women of Algiers in their apartment or Etienne Dinet or other painters of world fame like Pablo Picasso with his painting women of Algiers, or painters issued from the Algiers school.

Throughout the interwar years, French interest in anthropology often dovetailed with wider cultural movements such as surrealism and primitivism, which drew on ethnography for inspiration.

The story served as the inspiration for a number of science fiction movies.

E. H. Shepard drew on the landscapes of Ashdown Forest as inspiration for many of the illustrations he provided for the Pooh books.

Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

Brahms wrote to Clara Schumann that the inspiration for the dramatic entry of the horn in the introduction to the last movement of his First Symphony was an alphorn melody he heard while vacationing in the Rigi area of Switzerland.

"), is the inspiration for the text of several pieces of choral music, usually entitled When David Heard ( such as those by Renaissance composers Thomas Tomkins and Thomas Weelkes, or American composers Eric Whitacre, Joshua Shank, and Norman Dinerstein ).

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Although Grothendieck himself never published his work in this area, the proposal became the inspiration for work by other mathematicians and the source of the theory of dessins d ' enfants.

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* 1999 – Rachel Joy Scott, American student, victim of the Columbine High School massacre and inspiration for Rachel's Challenge ( b. 1981 )

Angel-shaped beings appear in ancient Mesopotamian and Greek art and were probably the inspiration for the popular Christian image of angels, a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture.

Salieri's instrumental works have been judged by various critics and scholars to lack the inspiration and innovation found in his writing for the stage.

This simple melodic and harmonic progression had served as an inspiration for many baroque composers, and would be used by later romantic and post-romantic composers.

The Battle of Marathon is perhaps now more famous as the inspiration for the Marathon race.

In 1903-4, Munch exhibited in Paris where the coming Fauvists, famous for their boldly false colors, likely saw his works and might have found inspiration in them.

Epicurus was also a significant source of inspiration and interest for both Arthur Schopenhauer, having particular influence on the famous pessimist's views on suffering and death, as well as one of Schopenhauer's successors: Friedrich Nietzsche.

This occurred in Moorish Spain from the 8th century, when the famous musician Ziryab introduced sophisticated clothing-styles based on seasonal and daily timings from his native Baghdad and his own inspiration to Córdoba in Al-Andalus.

This famous portrait was the main inspiration of Luchino Visconti in creating the character played by Burt Lancaster in his film The Leopard ( film ) | Il Gattopardo.

Though inspiration for this act might have come from the hostility his parents had shown the Jews in France ( his father was famous for his devout Christianity ) it was also an attempt to make himself popular in his new domains for the removal of usury.

They are famous for their lobster and the fact that one of the islands, Robinson Crusoe Island, is where Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel, was marooned for about four years.

She was famous for being irascible, garrulous, eccentric and outspoken, but the marriage, to all appearances, was essentially happy and she was a great source of inspiration to him.

Prolific film scorer John Williams drew inspiration from this film's soundtrack for his famous Star Wars opening theme.

Ricketts, whose life was an inspiration for the eventual building of the aquarium, is famous as the " Doc " of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.

This concept makes up the framework of the 15th century book Ship of Fools ( 1494 ) by Sebastian Brant, which served as the inspiration for Bosch's famous painting, Ship of Fools: a ship — an entire fleet at first — sets off from Basel to the paradise of fools.

The Sudbury election of 1835, which Charles Dickens reported for the Morning Chronicle, is thought by many experts to be the inspiration for the famous Eatanswill election in his novel Pickwick Papers.

The Shadow also appeared in DC's Batman # 253 ( Nov. 1973 ), in which Batman teams with an aging Shadow and calls the famous crime fighter his " greatest inspiration ".

He was noted for his use of facial mimicry and of apparently confused speech — in these he drew inspiration from such famous figures of Neapolitan comedy as Totò, and Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo.

Subsequently a stream of famous visitors came to view Staffa's wonders including Robert Adam, Sir Walter Scott ( 1810 ), John Keats ( 1818 ), J. M. W. Turner, whose 1830 visit yielded an oil painting exhibited in 1832, William Wordsworth ( 1833 ), Jules Verne ( 1839 ), Alice Liddell ( the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland ) in 1878, David Livingstone ( 1864 ), Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1870 ) and Mendelssohn himself in 1829.

Her capacity for projecting pathos was an inspiration to playwrights Thomas Otway and Thomas Southerne in the three famous tragic roles they wrote for her: Monimia in Otway's The Orphan ( 1680 ), Belvidera in Otway's Venice Preserved ( 1682 ), and Isabella in Southerne's The Fatal Marriage ( 1694 ).

Some scholars have identified the inspiration for several famous quotations from the American Revolution in Cato.

* In physics, one of the most important experiments of the late 19 < sup > th </ sup > century was the famous " failed experiment " of Michelson and Morley that served as an inspiration for special relativity.

There are varying versions of the inspiration for Deere's famous steel plow.

Soon the new style of music reached out and touched Europe, which led many famous English rock n ' roll bands to get their inspiration from the Chicago blues.

* February 11 — Michael Bodkin, Irish real-world inspiration to famous writer James Joyce ( born 1879 )

Guesde was the inspiration for a famous quotation by Karl Marx.

He became famous for his seventeen year overland journey to India, which is recorded in detail in the classic Chinese text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, which in turn provided the inspiration for the classical novel Journey to the West, written by Wu Cheng ' en during the Ming Dynasty, around nine centuries after Xuanzang's death.

Ceridwen is regarded by modern Wiccans as the Celtic goddess of rebirth, transformation, and inspiration.

After the decline of the Gothic Revival, and the Celtic Revival use of Insular styles, the anti-realist and expressive elements of medieval art have still proved an inspiration for many modern artists.

One Telerin change was from Common Eldarin /* kw / to / p /; this parallels a real-life change in Brythonic Celtic languages, including Welsh, which has similarities to and may have been an inspiration for Sindarin ( see Q-Celtic ( Goidelic ) and P-Celtic ( Brythonic ).</ div >

Author Jane Raeburn believes that while there is " a firm distinction between historical Celtic inspiration and modern Wiccan practice ", that the two can be blended to form " a living path of ethical and spiritual growth ".

The band's third album, The Third Storm of Cythraul ( 1997 ), drew inspiration mainly from Celtic mythology, and continued their intellectual approach.

She records and performs primarily her own original songs, which draw their inspiration from the mythology, folklore and history of various Celtic and non-Celtic cultures.