Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

Mozart shows a creative power of such magnitude that one can virtually say that he tossed out of himself one great masterpiece after another.

— Claudio Arrau

I found a deep kinship between Mahler's recurrent attempts to confront all sides of life and to affirm himself in the face of his…

— Philip Kitcher

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various…

— Robert Burns

“Something may be a sort of fulfillment of yourself, and it may not be great to other people, but it is just as essential…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who…

— Andre Malraux

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to…

— Andre Malraux

Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work…

— Marcel Duchamp

Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

— Paul Chong Hasang

The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays an important…

— Virchand Gandhi

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

— Mark Twain

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

— George Bernard Shaw

“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr