“To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.” IfsArtValuesQualityMysteryPaintingHarmFeatsIrreparableIrreparable Harm Author:Georges Braque
“Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.” BookRealQualityMysteryNew YorkMurderTradePocketsCentsPublishingPublishersMurder MysteriesReal Books Author:Lawrence Ferlinghetti
“I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own, scarcely to be shared with others or even made plausible to them. I habitually read special meanings into things, scenes and places qualities of wonder, beauty, promise, or horror for which there was no external evidence visible or plausible to others. My world was peopled with mysteries, seductive hints, vague menaces, "intimations of immortality.” WorldMadeAgeMy OwnQualityWonderMysteryChildhoodMiddleSpecialPromiseHorrorSceneEvidenceImmortalityVisibleIntensityVagueMiddle AgesHintsSeductiveMenacePlausible Book:MEMOIRS 1925-1950 Source: MEMOIRS 1925-1950
“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.” UsedArtistQualityPiecesAliveMysteryProducePoetPaintMediumsPotUnsaid Book:The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu Source: The poetry of clay: the art of Toshiko Takaezu
“Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.” PeopleFeltReligiousExistenceQualityCompassionMysteryAtheismStandardsAtheistPositive AtheismAweUrgesConventionalInnateMilitantSufferers Author:James A. Haught
“There's no great mystery to satisfying your customers. Build them a quality product and treat them with respect. It's that simple.” SimpleQualityMysteryProductsTreatsCustomersSatisfying Author:Lee Iacocca
“Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming helplessness one moment and the utter self-reliance the next that baffle us, that seem most difficult to understand. These are the qualities that make her a mystery, the qualities that provoked Freud to complain, "What does a woman want?” WantChildrenDoeSelfMomentsSeemsNextDifficultQualityMysteryComplainingSelf RelianceRelianceShiftingAmbiguityHelplessnessOften IsWomen WantProvokedAmbivalencePuzzling Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“"It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the day has a distinct quality, as it fades toward the darkness of evening. After sunset there is a gentle leaving of the light, the air begins to still, and a quiet descends. I see magic in the quiet light of dusk. I feel quiet, yet intense energy in the natural elements of our habitat. A sense of magic prevails. A sense of mystery. It is a time for contemplation, for listening - a time for making photographs. "” FeelsStillsLightEnergyNaturalQualityDarknessMagicAirMysteryListeningQuietElementsLatePhotographyLeavingPhotographerPhotographCommunicateIntenseEveningGentleContemplationSunsetFadesDuskHabitatNatural Elements Author:John Sexton
“It's fitting, then, that we begin this exploration of ourselves and of the world with music, and more specifically with a musical quality called vibrato. This pulsation that wells up within the sounded note can lead us to what is most spontaneous and creative in human life, and possibly even to deeper mysteries--to powers of knowing and doing which we have lost or given away during the epoch of civilization, and which perhaps we may now regain.” WorldHumansWellsMayLostGivenQualityCreativeKnowingMysteryCivilizationNotesMusicalDeeperHuman LifeExplorationSpontaneousFittingEpochKnowing And Doing Author:George Leonard
“Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.” LyingQualityMysteryGoodnessObjectives Author:Louis Pasteur
“Women are beginning to lose their identity. They have jumped with teeth clenched, fists braced and eyes aglow, into the competitive man's world. They're losing the vibrant quality of femininity, the aura of mystery.” MenWorldEyeLosesQualityMysteryIdentityLosingTeethFemininityFistsAuras Author:Tony Curtis
“The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.” ThinkingMayLittlesArtImportantDifferentSometimesMatterLastsReadingQualityTakenSeeingMysteryOriginalsMysteriousJust OneFascinatingAssertivenessOf Context Author:Susan Sontag
“it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” MenMeanReasonFactsFormLiteratureQualityDoubtMysteryAchievementCapableNegativeUncertaintyReachingCapabilityPossessed Author:John Keats