If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.
The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.
Someone who copies a Van Gogh does not therefore become Van Gogh, and the same would go for Mozart or anyone else who contributed something that was original. Certainly in the way that I described visualizing numbers in abstract, meaningful shapes.
Because of our fear that we are merely excited matter and the consequent grudge that we hold against the universe, we feel lost and alienated, like a refugee far from home in a universe that cares nothing for us.
I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.
Van Gogh on his brother's upcoming marriage: "It’s because he’s in Holland, where he’s getting married one of these days. Now, while not denying the advantages of a marriage in the very least, once it has been done and one is quietly set up in ...
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
To find is the thing.
Black is not a color.
A great painting is a great painting.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
There is a child in all of us.
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
There is no art without contemplation.
To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
The natural desire of good men is knowledge.
My curves are not crazy.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Imagination needs to be fed.
Virginia is a good start for Italy.
