Hermann Hesse Quotes

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Stories are not explanations of the world we live in. Science does that, and math does that. Our obligation as fiction writers is to enhance the mysteries.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

I usually think in terms of music.

I can't imagine a world without music.

I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

Music creates order out of chaos.

This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.

Everything can inspire me. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but I find inspiration in literally just about everything. As an actor, I have to watch people and observe their behaviors - this is how I create characters. My daily surroundings feed my work, whether it's something I'm working on right now or it's something down the road. Music, art, landscape - these are all things I draw inspiration from.