Art is there for nourishment, not explication.

“Demandez-vous s´il y a une explication au mystere de la vie et de la mort”

— Wilkie Collins

I like explication of ideas, even if I'm wrong or even if it's a struggle or if it's a work in progress.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature…

— Robert Boyle

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.

— Walter Darby Bannard

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.…

— Toni Morrison

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

— Jennifer Egan

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you…

— Billy Graham

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows…

— Andrea Dworkin

The living cell almost always contains, locked in its interior, the visible or invisible products of its physiological activity or its nourishment.

— Albrecht Kossel

Daily fervent prayers seeking forgiveness and special help and direction are essential to our lives and the nourishment of our testimonies. When we become…

— Donald L. Staheli

The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

— George Bernard Shaw

I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure,…

— Crescent Dragonwagon

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

— William Shakespeare

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

— Marya Mannes

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…

— Aristotle