“The compelling thing about making art — or making anything, I suppose — is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all the old sorceresses: they must have known the feeling as they transformed mere men into fabulous creatures, stole the secrets of the magicians, disposed armies: ah, look, there it is, the new thing. Call it a swine, a war, a laurel tree. Call it art.” MenWorldLooksArtIdeasWarMomentsFeelingsSecretKnownTreeCreaturesArmyMereSubstanceTransformedNew ThingsCompellingFabulousMagicianArtemisLaurelsAthenaSwineSorceress Author:Audrey Niffenegger
“The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.” IdeasMomentsDoubtCreaturesFindingsFellows Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“You see them? You see the things that float and flop about you and through you ever moment of your life? You see the creatures that form what men call the pure air and the blue sky? Have I not succeeded in breaking down the barrier; have I not shown you worlds that no other living men have seen?” MenWorldMomentsFormAirSkyPureCreaturesBlueBarriersBreaking DownFloatsBlue Sky Book:Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror Source: Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror
“Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.” TryingMomentsMightWinningLinesFineCreaturesCatInnocentCuresUnpredictableLapFine LinesInquisitiveDerangedHissingBanshees Author:George Takei
“The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.” FirstsLittlesMomentsAbleCultureIndividualBeliefBornCommunityBirthHabitActivityShapesCreaturesBehaviorStandardsPatternsCustomsImpossibilityAccommodations Author:Ruth Benedict