Acquaintance Quote by Anonymous

“We do not really know what draws a human being out into the world. Is it curiosity? A hunger for experience? An addiction to…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

“There are few things, - whether in the outward world, or to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought, - few things…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“As an aesthetic phenomenon existence is still bearable for us,57 and art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

We know only that our entire existence is forced into new paths and disrupted, that new circumstances, new joys and new sorrows await us,…

— Heinrich Heine

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“We all have a blind spot around our privileges shaped exactly like us,” Junot Díaz has said, and it can create blindness to failures…

— Sarah Lewis

“It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a…

— Nikolai Gogol

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

— Tennessee Williams

“When we zoom freely into the ‘now’ and surrender readily to a liberating emptiness, we can be instantly overwhelmed by creative surging strength and…

— Erik Pevernagie

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and…

— Carl Jung