Peter Matthiessen Quotes

It is necessary that one be a light to oneself in a world that is becoming utterly dark.

Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

My use of evenly repeated dots and diagonal lines and uninflected color areas suggest that my work is right where it is, right on the canvas, definitely not a window into the world.

I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

In music I still prefer the minor key, and in printing I like the light coming from the dark. I like pictures that surmount the darkness, and many of my photographs are that way. It is the way I see photographically. For practical reasons, I think it looks better in print too.

'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and that is was a very apt metaphor for making music - or any creative act, really. We all start in the dark and have to create light.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

It is possible that scientists, poets, painters and writers are all members of the same family of people whose gift it is by nature to take those things which we call common-place and to 're-present' them to us - the world - in such ways that our self-imposed limitations are expanded.

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self.

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.