“What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.” WorldHas BeensMadeDoneEffortMastersGeniusCostBirdPainfulSpontaneousNests Book:Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters Source: Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters
“I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?” WayMadeFirePaintingSurfacePursuitImpressionBurningFlamesProvokingSpontaneous Author:Yves Klein
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.” LoveMadeYoungJoyBeliefDarkVisionBlueMeetingsFingersLipsPhrasesSubtleRaysYearningCheeksSpontaneousYoung LoveUnfinishedMomentaryLove MakingCompletenessIndefinableOrbs Book:Middlemarch: Easyread Edition Source: Middlemarch: Easyread Edition
“I hate symbolic art in which the presentation loses all spontaneous movement in order to become a machine, an allegory -- a vain and misconceived effort because the very fact of giving an allegorical sense to a presentation clearly shows that we have to do with a fable which by itself has no truth either fantastic or direct; it was made for the demonstration of some moral truth.” GivingArtMadeFactsShowsHateOrderLosesEffortMoralMovementDirectMachinesI HateFantasticVainSpontaneousPresentationDemonstrationSymbolicFablesAllegory Author:Luigi Pirandello