Saturday 5 December 2020

Quotes about Mysteries

Here are some famous words on mystery, suspense and everything in between.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. (Diane Ackerman)

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion. Many refuse to admit it: I feel a mystery exists. There are certain times, when, as on the whisper of the wind, there comes a clear and quiet realization that there is indeed a presence in the world, a nonhuman entity that is not necessarily inhuman. (Ansel Adams)

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. (Scott Adams)

To find out that you are empty of emptiness is to die into an aware mystery, which is the source of all existence. (Adyashanti)

The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts. (Louis Aragon)

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. (Sergio Aragones)

It's a fine line between your own aesthetic ideas, keeping that subtlety, that mystery, and over-explaining to your viewers. (Clyde Aspevig)

When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue. (Jeet Aulakh)

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. (Richard Dawkins)

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. (Edgar Degas)

Nature is a haunted house, but art is a house that tries to be haunted. (Emily Dickinson)

Love's mysteries in souls do grow, / But yet the body is his book. (John Donne)

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax. (Denis Donoghue)

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses – nature and animals... (Katherine Dunn)

The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. (Freeman Dyson)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all sciences. (Albert Einstein)

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