QUOTES - 4
A Free Public Resource Promoting Education In Arts, Ethics and Literature
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Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quality and, hopefully, in value. -- Louis L'Amour |
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
-- Victor Hugo |
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When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. -- Alan Watts |
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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear. -- Maya Angelou |
Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life. -- Plato |
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Living itself has to become artistic. You have to take this challenge of change, and bring about a revolution in yourself, in your activity, and in your whole life. -- Dada |
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity. -- Daniel Barenboim |
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In the state of totality of energy you live fully and creatively. This is a different dimensional state in which mind is completely quiet and idea activity is totally eliminated. It is the energy, the pure energy, that works, experiences, meets and creates. Then you are quiet, open, and yet dynamically active in this creative state. Whatever you do on this level will be artistic, aesthetic and sublime. -- Dada |
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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. -- Chinua Achebe |
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The true poem rests between the words. -- Vanna Bonta |
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I find working with glass meditative, almost therapeutic. I can leave the world behind, and focus... The simplicity of form, the drama of rich, intense colour, the joy of challenge, and the challenge of endurance... The piece, when it is over, is not what is made, but how it is made. -- Andrew Kuntz |
Your job is a manifestation of your spirit in the physical world. You can pretend that this is not the case, basically ignore it, or you can consciously claim it. You get to choose.
-- Ric Giardina |
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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem. -- Rollo May |
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once they grow up.
-- Pablo Picasso |
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
-- Goethe |
Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down.
-- Julia Cameron |
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Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine. -- Magdalena Abakanowicz |
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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. -- Dee Hock |
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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them -- Samuel Butler |
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! -- John Burroughs |
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I'm a speck, an atom. Everything physical is an illusion, but it's there to guide us or test us or deter us. Our job is to navigate through this world while understanding the only thing that matters is the state of our soul, and that's very hard because I'm in the entertainment business, which is completely based on illusion and physical things. Any success I have is a manifestation of God. It's my ego that wants to claim ownership. It's hubris, arrogance and greed. -- Madonna |
War, disease, alienation, conflict, hatred, competition. All are falling to evolution.
-- Thom The World Poet |
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at a college -- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
-- Howard Ikemoto |
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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That is what poetry does. --Allen Ginsberg |
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Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. -- Rita Mae Brown |
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Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. -- Erich Fromm |
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The object behind every true work of art is the attainment of a state of being. -- Robert Henri |
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
-- E.M. Forster |
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Every person's memory is their private literature. -- Aldous Huxley |
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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water. -- Albert Schweitzer |
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If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke. -- Brenda Francis |
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I do know that craft, if you pursue craft, will return you again and again to this creative state. To pursue the craft means to endeavor to bring together the intention of the mind to the hand, and an invitation to feeling -- an invitation to a new kind of feeling. -- Nicholas Hlobeczy |
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When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young. -- Maya Angelou |
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