Drama Quote by John Dryden

This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of…

— Marcel Proust

“Revealing aspects of the mystery of being human is life's inexhaustible research. Through the adventures of art, we find the meaning of our lives.”

— Ashley Bryan

“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this…

— George Eliot

“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment of courage,…

— Joseph Conrad

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

— David W. Orr

Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into…

— Yehudi Menuhin

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else remain forever…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills…

— Charles Baudelaire

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

“A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the object of…

— Pema Chödrön

The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the…

— Albert Einstein

AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A…

— Andrei Tarkovsky