Beauty and Form
Aesthetics is usually defined as “a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of the beautiful and with judgments concerning beauty.” I recall the endurance […]
Quotes
Vulnerable World
“One way of looking at human creativity is as a process of pulling balls out of a giant urn. The balls represent possible ideas, discoveries, […]
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship
“… it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. […] Today the individual has become […]
Victor Frankl quotes
“I consider it a dangerous misconception of mental hygiene to assume that what man needs in the first place is equilibrium or, as it is […]
You need not teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree
“You need not, and in fact cannot, teach an acorn to grow into an oak tree, but when given a chance, its intrinsic potentialities will […]
They Thought They Were Free
“One doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only […]
Quotes from A Life of One’s Own by Marion Milner
Some quotes I’ve collected from a book I’m reading, A Life of One’s Own, by Marion Milner. Certainly I had never suspected that the key […]
Raw material for the artist
“A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have […]