“In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.” ThinkingFactsKnownSeeingEssentialsInvisibleVisibleLiving ThingsGaudy Author:Georges Rouault
“The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the fact - in the future.” PeopleFactsCreativityCreativeCreationIntelligentSurfaceVisibleGenesis Book:The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 Source: The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
“What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality. It may sound paradoxical, but it is in fact reality which forms the mystery of our existence.” WantMayIdeasFactsShowsRealityFormSoundBehindsExistenceMysterySeekingInvisibleBridgesVisibleParadoxical Author:Max Beckmann
“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.” MenWorldTryingWholeMomentsFactsMotivationTurnsWishGoalVisible Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“I will say that the God concept is at the heart of 2001 but not any traditional, anthromorphic image of God. I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe.” GivingBelieveHeartFactsEarthUniverseStarsAcceptingSunConceptsDon't BelieveDefinitionsBillionsTraditionalVisibleConstructsGalaxyIntriguingGod Image Author:Stanley Kubrick