Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn’t deserve.

I don't trust humans that always go out to take calls, the way i don't trust humans that hang around bars and refuse to drink.

What can we do to win these men to Christ?

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Religion is civilization, the highest.

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

One thought cannot awake without awakening others.

The only way to kill militancy, to reduce it, is to provide opportunities to people who have no opportunities. I've always told my American friends that.

The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.