Deborah Harkness Quotes

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

I get inspiration from a lot of things around me - nature, hills, people, and even insects.

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

There is inspiration all around us.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

Beauty can inspire miracles.

The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

I don't do a lot of research, exactly, but I'm constantly wandering through the world finding things incredible and remembering them.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.