Quote by Barbara Bolt

“No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The nature of a work of art is to be not a part, nor yet a copy of the real world but a world…

— A.C. Bradley

“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

“Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden…

— James Allen

“Art (including literature) is the barometer of a culture. It reflects the sum of a society’s deepest philosophical values: not its professed notions and…

— Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge…

— Ernst Mach

“Through man’s ability to represent or model the world, he secures the world for his own use.”

— Barbara Bolt

The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the…

— Paul Valery

“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the layers of…

— William Carlos WIlliams

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization…

— George Edward Woodberry

“Whenever we think, we construct a world that is centred upon the object of our thinking; whenever we act, we reconstruct a world that…

— Raheel Farooq