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“Our inability to understand the sublime or cope with the absolute is also a hint of its undoing; magnificence, like magnanimity, stands always on a precipice, ready to crumble.”

Book:Baroque Visual Rhetoric

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“How can a sentient person of the modern age mistake photography for reality? All perception is selection, and all photographs--no matter how objectively journalistic the photographer's intent--exclude aspects of the moment's complexity. Photographs economize the truth; they are always moments more or less illusorily abducted from time's continuum.”

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Book:Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Source: Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“In reality, the true painter, as you know, possesses within himself—in his muscles, his sensibility, even in his thinking—the golden number or numbers and the laws of color; he possesses them, he has earned them, he makes them live through everything he experiences and sees, not just on the canvas: his work is therefore both useful and universal.”

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Book:A Night of Serious Drinking

Source: A Night of Serious Drinking

“There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers.”

Life God Problem Time Future Question Prayers Solution Answer

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The canvas waits, silent and patient, For a moment yet inspired. The final stroke completes the piece, A vivid story, strong and bright.”

Art Inspiration Creativity Resilience Self Expression

Book:Poetic Bipolar Mind : Unraveling Life’s Threads Through Art and Words

Source: Poetic Bipolar Mind : Unraveling Life’s Threads Through Art and Words

“Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is every really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color – that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“Good art is the sensuous presentation of those ideas which matter most to the proper functioning of our souls — and yet which we are most inclined to forget.”

Art Virtue Edification

Book:Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

Source: Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion

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