Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy.
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits own creation in place of the meaner world of common days, of generating around itself an atmosphere with a novel power of refraction, selecting, transforming, recombining the images it transmits, according to the choice of the imaginative intellect. In exercising this power, painting and poetry have a choice of subject almost unlimited.
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. . . Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. . . For art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Art is always an energy exchange.
Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.
When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business. . . I don't like any fooling around in the studio.
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.