“If you want to know what true art is: Go outside on a clear night, wait until it gets very, very dark, then look up! You will see no rules of composition, no evidence of superior technique. Yet, you will be staring into the very face of pure, unadulterated beauty and wonder. That is the unattainable Ideal for which I must constantly strive.” IfsKnowsWantLooksArtFacesNightWaitingDarkWonderClearPureArt IsEvidenceIdealsStriveTechniqueSuperiorsStaringLook UpCompositionUnattainable Author:Derek R. Audette
“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.” WayShouldWritingMadeAbleWantedStuffFictionWonderFantasyLaughingClearInformationScience FictionScaredScaryJournalismMainstreamGood WritersComedicSense Of WonderConciseScary Stuff Author:Neil Gaiman
“A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.” WorldChildrenBeautifulLostWonderVisionClearGardenInstinctExcitementAweMisfortunesAdulthoodInner ChildSense Of WonderChildren PlayingSilent SpringChildren And Nature Book:The Sense of Wonder Source: The Sense of Wonder
“The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?” WritingBookShowsNextWonderClearIndiaPassagesChaptersFatigueDisillusionmentTriumphant Author:E. M. Forster
“You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here” WorldTryingWellsHardLostLosesWonderClearCrowdsConfusionLoudRealisingCompetingGetting Lost Author:Kim Wilde
“Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.” PeopleAnswersWonderClearViolenceVictimIntuitionAccidentsCleverEngagedDefiance Book:The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence