Hazrat Inayat Khan Quotes

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

An artist worthy of the name should express all the truth of nature, not only the exterior truth, but also, and above all, the inner truth.

Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?

The aim of art is a constant, and a continuous job to reveal visually the attitude of our mentality. And the less we disturb the influence of our mentality the more I believe we come close to the truth.

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit.

A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.