Accomplishment Quote by Stefan Zweig

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious…

— Henry James

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new…

— Susan Sontag

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new…

— Diane Ackerman

“Almost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming ever more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“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

“Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.

— Shawn Crahan

For me, the photography, in its purest form, is a variant of the fable. Another way of saving the appearances - a way of…

— Jean Baudrillard

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

— Phillip Lopate

There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.

— Luc Delahaye

Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is…

— Stephanie Mills

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of…

— Edward Burtynsky