Quotes

I'm not too particularly fond of inspiration quotes and my main reason is because people are so ambiguous on their origin. I never understand where people pull them from. One thing is quoting a set of lyrics (which I like to do, especially DevilDriver lyrics), but when people come out with "Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson and "Inspiration and genius--one and the same" - Victor Hugo, that's where my buttons begin to turn. I never understand where the quotes originate from, what context were they used in or what led to their existence. Don't get me wrong, everyone is free from where they would like to get their inspiration from but I just don't get the point of quoting inspiration quotes, especially when pretty much half of them are anonymous as it is.