Capable Quote by Mircea Eliade

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel.…

— Georges Clemenceau

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that…

— Andy Goldsworthy

“I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in the present…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“Stone is a primal matter, inhuman in its duration. Yet despite its incalculable temporality, the lithic is not some vast and alien outside. A…

— Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

“Lies, fictions and untrue suppositions can create new human truths which build technology, art, language, everything that is distinctly of Man. The word "stone"…

— Stephen Fry

Stones become statues, when God becomes commodity

— Charles Elba

“The stone has no uncertainties, no urge to communicate, and is eternally the same for thousands of years, while I am only a passing…

— C.G. Jung

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of…

— Bertrand Russell

To say that there is a soul in stones simply in order to account for their production is unsatisfactory: for their production is not…

— Albertus Magnus

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

— Andy Goldsworthy

“By projecting his psyche into the stone he gave the stone life, identity, consciousness, doing what the alchemists did as they gazed into the…

— Anthony Stevens