Quotations

QUOTATIONS I LIKE

ART

"Art is an inbred craving of the natural, genuine and uncorrupted man."
-Richard Wagner,
Makers of the Modern World, by Louis Untermyer(1955)

"The creation of a work of art is like the creation of a world."
-Wassily Kandinsk
Ruckblicke(1913)

"Trash has given us an appetite for art."
-Pauline Kael
Movies as Opera,(1968)

"Art is power."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Hyperion" (1839)

"Artists, like Greek gods, are only revealed to one another."
-Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist(1891)

BEAUTY

"Beauty is a single Universal existing only in differences."
-Plato
Ion(350 BC)

"Death is the mother of beauty;
Hence from her alone
Shall come fulfillment to our dreams
And our desires."
-Wallace Stevens
The Collected Works of Wallace Stevens(1954)

"The soul is beautiful in virtue of intelligence,
and other things are beautiful so far as the soul gives them form."
-Plotinus
Enneades (c.A.D. 70)

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is in the heart."
-Unknown

COLOR

"Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything."
-Leonardo Da Vinci

"There is no blue without yellow and orange."
-Vincent van Gogh

"Why, black is the queen of colors."
-Auguste Rodin
Art(1912)

"Gray is the enemy of all painting.
Owling to its oblique position in daylight,
a painting will always appear grayer than it really is;
banish therefore all dull colors."
-Eugene Delacroix

CREATIVITY

Conditions for Creativity
1) The ability to be puzzled.
2) The ability to concentrate.
3) The ability to accept conflict and tension.
4) The willingness to be born everyday.
5) To feel a sense of self.
-Erich Fromm
Creativity and Its Cultivation(1959)

EXPERIENCE

"Study the past if you would divine the future."
-Confucious
Analects(c. 500 B.C.)

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