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“Love is artists' foremost muse.”

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“Oneness is not sameness.”

Art Views Perspective Mindset Architecture Oneness Sameness Shape Viewpoint Mind Mapping Mental Maps

Book:The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

Source: The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times

“If you ask today what art is, what its function is, what the meaning of art is and why one should create art, the answer given oftentimes by Western philosophers of art and those who special- ize in modern aesthetics is ‘‘art for art’s sake.’’ The modern response is that you just create art for the sake of art; but this was never the answer of traditional civilizations where one created art for both the sake of attainment of inner perfection and for human need in the deepest sense—because the needs of man are not only physical, they are also spiritual. We are as much in need of beauty as of the air that we breathe.”

Art Form Islam Western Meaning Eastern

Book:در جست‌وجوی امر قدسی

Source: در جست‌وجوی امر قدسی

“You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!”

“You think that I am naive, but it is you who are naive. You have no idea what is happening inside of you when you look at a painting. You think that you are getting close to art voluntarily, enticed by its beauty, that this intimacy is taking place in an atmosphere of freedom and that delight is being born in you spontaneously, lured by the divine rod of Beauty. In truth, a hand has grabbed you by the scruff of the neck, led you to this painting and has thrown you to your knees. A will mightier than your own told you to attempt to experience the appropriate emotions. Whose hand and whose will? That hand is not the hand of a single man, the will is collective, born in an interhuman dimension, quite alien to you. So you do not admire at all, you merely try to admire.”

Book:Diary

Source: Diary

“The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.”

Book:Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

“as if it were a point of honor—which, indeed, a point of art often is.”

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Love is an art and this love lacks artists.”

Love Art Artists

Book:You and Her

Source: You and Her

“The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence.”

Art Transcendence Post Modernism

Book:The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

Source: The Transparency of Evil: Essays in Extreme Phenomena

“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear every day in the ad for Bella Perfume.”

Art Culture Music Capitalism Modernity Commercialization Beethoven

Author:Milan Kundera

“Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce. Thus is Art, a nature passed through the alembic of man. Thus in art, does nature work through the will of a man filled with the beauty of her first works.”

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings