Home / Quotes / Quote by Shannon L. Alder

Quote by Shannon L. Alder

“Many of the most powerful things in life are not tangible. All it takes is for you to close your eyes to see.”

Quote by Shannon L. Alder

Author

Shannon L. Alder

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Shannon L. Alder. more

You May Also Like

“He wanted to achieve something of surpassing beauty that would last. A creation that would mean that he--the mosaic worker Caius Crispus of Varena--had been born, and lived a life, and had come to understand a portion of the nature of the world, of what ran through and beneath the deeds of women and men in their souls and in the beauty and the pain of their short living beneath the sun.”

Book:Sailing to Sarantium

Source: Sailing to Sarantium

“In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last.”

Book:The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Source: The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.”

Author:Piet Hein

“Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.”

God Faith Existence

Book:The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”

Art Artist Beauty

Book:Twenty Prose Poems

Source: Twenty Prose Poems

“…Every day I discover even more beautiful things. It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all - my head is bursting…”

Author:Claude Monet

“Beautiful art opens our eyes to the beauty of the world, Ulysses. It repositions our sight and judgement. Captures forever that which is fleeting.”

Book:Still Life

Source: Still Life

“Art is about feelings and emotion. It's about letting them escape, so they can be shared. It's about capturing a truth about yourself. Like you're ripping a hole in your chest and exposing your soul.”

Book:Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Source: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.”

Art Photography

Book:Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

Source: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

“Observation is a dying art.”

Art Film Observation

Book:Stanley Kubrick: Interviews

Source: Stanley Kubrick: Interviews