Spirituality
Joseph Addison
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
Berthold Brecht
Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.
James Baldwin
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been concealed by the answers.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Johannes Brahms
Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
The Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we create the world. ~ The Dammapada
C.K. Chesterton
Nothing sublimely artistic has ever arisen out of mere art … There must always be a rich moral soil for any artistic growth.
Chinese Proverb
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring,
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
~Strange Music
Confucius to a pupil
Do you think I have come to know many things by studying them? No. I penetrate them by their underlying unity."(15:3)
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done. ~ Peter Drucker
Leonardo da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art .
Antoine de St. Exupery
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Lawrence Durrel, author
Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might surprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough. Will there be time?
Bob Dylan
In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Jean-Luc Godard
Sometimes reality is too complex. Fiction gives it form.
Paul Gauguin
Many excellent cooks are spoiled by going into the arts
Nadine Gordimer South African novelist
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity
—The Essential Gesture, lecture, 12 Oct 1984.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldy cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Vaclav Havel
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul.
I Ching
When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through.
Sophia Loren (1934 - ____) Italian actress
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
When I am...completely myself, entirely alone...or during the night when I cannot sleep, it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how these come I know not nor can I force them...Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them gleich alles zusammen [at the same time all together.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination, nor both together, go to the making of a genius. Love, love, love: that is the soul of genius.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of all beautiful art , all great art , is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Georgia O'keeffe
To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.
Marcel Proust
I wondered whether music might not be the unique example of what might have been - if the invention of language had not intervened — the means of communication between souls. (Remembrance of Things Past)
Albert Schweitzer
In everyone's life at some time,
our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter
with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people
who rekindle the human spirit.
Rabindranath Tagore
The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music.
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By Arthur B. VanGundy and Linda Naiman.
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