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"Have you ever seen an inchworm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something, to reach something? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing."
Albert Pinkham Ryder
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"People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the image...By asking 'what does this mean?' they express a wish that everything be understandable. But if one does not reject the mystery, one has quite a different response. One asks different things."
René Magritte
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"She can't get over the fact that I play piano to please myself. And that's the way with all the Sybils of the world; they don't realize that it's love, not ambition, that makes an artist."
Eliot Bliss
"Saraband"
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"Her image had passed into his soul forever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy...A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel off mortal youth to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory. On and on and on and on!"
James Joyce
"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
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"Deep down, I think we all want to live like that. We really want to look at the looking glass and not come out; or get lost in the forest and be pleasurably lost. Like in fairy tales, when you lose the handrail."
The Brothers Quay
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand in rapt awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein
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"Mignon's song is not a sad song, not poignant, not a plea. There is a grandeur about her questioning. She does not ask you if you know the land of which she sings because she herself is uncertain it exists - she knows, oh! how well she knows it lies somewhere, elsewhere, beyond the absence of flowers. She states the existance of that land and all she wants to know is, whether you know it too."
Angela Carter
"Nights at the Circus"
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I believe in Michaelangelo, Velasquez and Rembrant; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting and the message of art has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
G. B. Shaw
"The Doctor's Dilemma"
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