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“Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.”

Knows Giving Art Ideas Form Creativity Air Mystery Inspired Patterns Encounters New Ideas

Author:Rupert Sheldrake

“Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.”

Men Art Study Mystery Inspired Corners Isolated Obscurity Disregarded Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jean-Francois Millet

“The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other.”

World Age Sides Religious Struggle Mystery Degrees Ideals Inspired International Greek Judaism Religious Faith Pagan Egyptian Polyglots

Book:A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

Source: A History of Science: Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C

“Neutrinos alone, among all the known particles, have ethereal properties that are striking and romantic enough both to have inspired a poem by John Updike and to have sent teams of scientists deep underground for 50 years to build huge science-fiction-like contraptions to unravel their mysteries.”

Years Enough Fiction Known Mystery Team Huge Scientist Science Fiction Property Inspired Particles Ethereal Neutrinos

Author:Lawrence M. Krauss

“At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.”

Needs Heart Age Law Certain Song Mystery Experience Filled Inspired Admiration Recalls Passive Symptoms Totality Continuation Engraved

Author:Marcel Proust

“To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.”

Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand this?”

Reading Mystery Inspired Contrary Prose Yield

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“My goal onstage is to always have people leave feeling that they received something very special, an inspired feeling that they can take with them and into their lives. That's what the artists I love have always done for me and that's what I have always admired and tried to emulate in my own performances. I still believe that music stands alone in its power to communicate "spirit", whatever that might mean to any given fan. It's a mystery and it's something I still find so exciting and challenging at the same time.”

People Believe Mean Done Feelings Spirit Artist Goal Challenges Mystery Special Exciting Inspired Communicate Stand Alone I Still Believe

Author:Edward Kowalczyk