She lives the poetry she cannot write.

— Oscar Wilde

Art is not a thing — it is a way.

— Elbert Hubbard

Asking questions is more important than finding answers ...

Joseph Kittinger

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well.

— Albert Einstein

Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses — especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Artists and scientists are the official noticers of society. They notice things that other people either have never learned to see or have learned to ignore, and communicate those noticings to others.

— Frank Oppenheimer

We are, each of us, a multitude. Within us is a little universe.

— Carl Sagan

The most radical thing is to make works, that are not recognizable as art.

— Gregor Schneider

The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean team-work. One is always alone; on the set as before the blank page. And for Bergman, to be alone means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them. Nothing could be more classically romantic.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Miles Davis | Live in Montreux | 1973

Touched by a masterpiece, a person begins to hear in himself that same call of truth which prompted the artist to his creative act. When a link is established between the work and its beholder, the latter experiences a sublime, purging trauma. Within that aura which unites masterpieces and audience, the best sides of our souls are made known, and we long for them to be freed. In those moments we recognize and discover ourselves, the unfathomable depths of our own potential, and the furthest reaches of our emotions.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Sven Nykvist | Andrei Tarkovsky

You don't see them often. For wherever the crowd is, they are not. These odd ones, not many. But from them come the few good paintings, the few good symphonies, the few good books and other works. And from the best of the strange ones, perhaps nothing. They are their own paintings, their own books, their own music, their own work. Sometimes I think I see them. Say a certain old man sitting on a certain bench, in a certain way, or a quick face going the other way in a passing automobile, or there's the certain motion of the hands of a bag boy or a bag girl while packing supermarket groceries. Sometimes it is even somebody you've been living with for sometime. Sometimes it is even somebody you've been living with for sometime. You will notice a lightning quick glance never seen from them before. Sometimes you will only note their existence suddenly in vivid recall some months, some years after they are gone. [...]

— Charles Bukowski; The Strongest of the Strange

The Seventh Seal

Luis Ocaña; Tour de France, 04.07.1969

A Japanese legend says, that if you can't sleep at night, it's because you're awake in someone else's dream ...

Liv Ullmann | Ingmar Bergman

I have nothing to say about nothing. There's nothing to say. The less I say they better I feel.

— Charles Bukowski

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

— Federico Fellini

No why. Just here.

— John Cage