“Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.” IndividualBeliefCreationComplexesMysteriousCherishCreedsCapturedIndividual Freedom Author:William F. Schulz
“Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.” ArtIndividualWhiteAchievementArt IsOriginalsMereAppearanceSignificantGenuineMysteriousRemarkablePoeticGiftedFinestDenseActuality Author:William Walsh
“Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.” FallIndividualLanguageCommunityAnswersMembersRemainsDefinitionsSentencesGenuineMysteriousRealmsAbstractPhenomenonElectricityMysticalAdequateMiraculousSuitableUnfathomableOne Sentence Book:The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace Source: The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace
“An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.” PeopleMenMindArtistPassionIndividualCreativeTalentIndependentDrivenContraryMysteriousHopelessPeculiarUnusualSensibilityNeuroticNeurosisCrippled Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways.” WayHumansPersonsMadeTogetherLife IsIndividualGrowsHuman BeingsCasesOne ThingRelationMysteriousGentlenessBearableLife TogetherUnbreakableMysterious WaysUnbreakable Bonds Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.” PeopleFeelsHumansHandsLawCertainIndividualMy OwnProduceCreaturesMassBirdSpeciesCrowdsMysteriousRhythmMake SenseFeaturesRepeatsQuantityGesturesRepetitionInsectsInabilityDisturbingCountingHerdsRiddleInvokeSubservientSwitchingPrototypeAbhorrenceHuman HandsAssemblage Author:Magdalena Abakanowicz