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“Die Frage ist, warum wir malen. Nicht, was. Warum. [...] Wir malen, um das auszudrücken, was wir sind – Wesen voller Gefühle, geistige Wesen.”

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Book:Die Malerin

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“Kunst bedeutet Ausdruck, nicht Nachahmung. Wir Künstler können – wir müssen – über das, was wir als Gegenstand sehen, hinausgehen. Wir müssen grundlegende Gedanken ausdrücken, reine Gedanken. [...] Wahre Kunst muss wie Musik sein. Das bedeutet sie muss abstrakt sein.”

Art Kunst Kandinsky Abstrakt

Book:Die Malerin

Source: Die Malerin

“Prayer and art are passionate acts of will. One wants to transcend and enhance the will's normal possibilities. Art like prayer is a hand outstretched in the darkness, seeking for some touch of grace which will transform it into a hand that bestows gifts. prayer means casting oneself into the miraculous rainbow that stretches between becoming and dying, to be utterly consumed in it, in order to bring its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one's own existence”

Art Religion Prayer

Author:Franz Kafka

“O art I won't hurt you if you don't hurt me.”

Art Visitors Barthelme

Book:Forty Stories

Source: Forty Stories

“Art cannot be fixed to a single location because lived experience is not left behind in the room where the object rests unseen at night after the museum has closed its doors. The art object travels in many bodies in multiple forms and it speaks and writes and sings in many languages.It is a living thing.”

Book:Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

Source: Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

“يرضّ الجدري جسد أيوب عليه السلام، تتشتت أسرته، تتبعثر أملاكه، أكثر الناس تفاؤلا يفقد الأمل في شفائه، وهو صابر محتسب! تشتعل الأسقام في جسده وهو منكّس الرأس لمولاه، وبعد سنوات البلاء، يندّ من شفتيه دعاء حيي، دعاء منكّس رأسه بذلة، دعاء ممتلئ باليقين: "أنّي مسني الضر وأنت أرحم الراحمين”

God Religion Islam Allah الله

Book:لأنك الله: رحلة إلى السماء السابعة

Source: لأنك الله: رحلة إلى السماء السابعة

“I am not creative, I'm just alive, Creativity is just a byproduct. If you don't impose limits of norm, Every blood vessel is creation-duct.”

Art Artist Creativity Creative Creation Poet Writer Poetic Creative Writing Arts

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“I am not creative, I'm just alive.”

Art Artist Creativity Creative Creation Poet Writer Poetic Creative Writing Arts

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If you are alive, you are creative.”

Art Artist Creativity Creative Creation Poet Writer Poetic Creative Writing Arts

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“If you don't impose limits of norm, every blood vessel is creation duct.”

Art Education Creativity Creative Teaching Conformity Creative Process Creative Writing Creative Thinking Creative Flow

Book:Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Believing that art itself, and the proper expression of emotions, was the most sublime thing in the world, he thought political power and wealth served only one purpose: to make art possible”

Author:Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore