"The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form."

-- Gustav Mahler

#Spirit Quotes #Form Quotes #Clear Quotes

“I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.”
“I love the dynamic contrast between the spontaneous shots and the more formal, pro-rock-star photos.”
“I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.”
“If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.”
“It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.”
“I canâ€™t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.”
“I was given a talent to play cricket. I don't know why I was given it. But I was. I owe it to all those who wish it had been them to give of my best, every day.”
“The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.”

Source : Murasaki Shikibu (2011). “The Tale of Genji”, p.61, Tuttle Publishing

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