All things Quote by William Butler Yeats

As we lose our vagueness about ourself, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular,…

— Julia Cameron

The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sense for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

— Anonymous

Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If, in time of peace, our museums and art galleries are important to the community, in time of war they are doubly valuable. For…

— Anonymous

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

— John French Sloan

“All great work—artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual—is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when they forget themselves…

— Walpola Rahula

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

— Walpola Rahula

Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the…

— Alex Grey

Please bear in mind that my observations and thoughts are the outcome of my own unaided impulse and curiosity alone; for, besides myself, in…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

— Zoroaster