Follow-up Quote  to Spirit of Inspiration Newsletter,  Capturing that Burning Idea. This page can be found at this url.
http://humanityquest.com/themes/inspiration/Newsletter/2003-06-19/Follow-onPosts1.asp
 

Here is another quote by Eugène Delacroix that touches on topic of the last newsletter, "Capturing that Burning Idea". In this case it's more a matter of acting on that burning idea.

Inspiration comes and goes. I find it interesting how ideas pass through my mind, a steady stream of images, but only some have that special energy to them.  Should you act on an energetic idea right when it pops up? Joan and I were driving home from an Inspiration Project meeting through downtown Berkeley where all the movie theaters are located.

 Joan suddenly had the idea, "Let's go see a movie." Then she started thinking it over.....  "But there's so much to do at home."

"Maybe we should just go to the movie and do it and see how it goes.  It would be a test of acting on an inspiration." I replied.

 "I have to get ready for work. I need to get up early at 5 a.m. and we'll get out of the movie late. I still have to make lunch for tomorrow....."  She talked herself out of it and we continued on home.  

Should you act on an idea right then and there? or think about it, weight it in relation to all the other aspects of your life?  Seems like Eugène Delacroix would have advised us to charge forward and go see the movie?..

Delacroix Touches on Another Aspect of Inspiration,

Eugène Delacroix  painted "Liberty Leading the People",  which I see as the inspiration that can be found in a human value, in this case the value or spirit of Liberty.  In this painting the revolutionaries are inspired by Liberty and tentatively follow her forward over the wounded, fallen and dead bodies of what looks like their comrades.  Hmmm... following your inspiration doesn't mean you'll get out alive...