Contemplative Quote by Thomas Merton

“There is always an enormous temptation to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end.”

— Annie Dillard

Writers need their totems, their altars. Mine, I feel, share the same randomness and utility of those belonging to painters I know, who are…

— Kevin Young

“The feeding of the Muse then, which we have spent most of our time on here, seem to me to be the continual running…

— Ray Bradbury

In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments,…

— John Worlidge

“It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim…

— Irving Stone

“Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant,…

— Medlar Lucan

Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object.

— William Shakespeare

Statues are one of the ways I try to test the traditions of European culture against the most modern destructive forces. I often make…

— Tony Harrison

Objectivity and presence of mind are essential in such positions where sacrificial temptations are not always resistable.

— Leonid Shamkovich

“Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and…

— A. S. Byatt

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it…

— Randolph Bourne