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Artful Quotes (page 128)

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties? this knowledge, this feeling? that is the core of the true... Albert Einstein
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves. Adrienne Rich
Ambrose Bierce quote: "War: A by-product of the arts of peace."
War: A by-product of the arts of peace. Ambrose Bierce
John Berger quote: "Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We..."
Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way. John Berger
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the “Nation,” it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry. Arundhati Roy
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool. Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own! William Shakespeare
Charlaine Harris quote: "It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing..."
It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you. Charlaine Harris
Not everyone can appreciate the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see. Ann Patchett
Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. This thought matured in him slowly, and it was reflected in Vasudeva's old childlike face: harmony, knowledge of the eternal perfection of the world, and unity. Herman Hesse
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. C. S. Lewis
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. George Orwell
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love! Philip Roth
Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word: If thou art dun, we'll draw thee from the mire. Of this sir-reverence love, wherein thou stick'st. Up to the ears. Come, we burn daylight, ho! William Shakespeare
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD: The important things never will be. Anyone can be trained in the mechanics of piloting a starship. WESLEY: But Starfleet Academy PICARD: It takes more. Open your mind to the past. Art, history, philosophy. And all this may mean something. Gene Roddenberry
John Calvin quote: "All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine..."
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions John Calvin

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