Quotes About Fascination

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Tempted by the names

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

Zahir, in Arabic, means visible, present, incapable of going unnoticed. It is someone or something which, once we have come into contact with them or it, gradually occupies our every thought, until we can think of nothing else. This can be considered either a state of holiness or of madness.

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

love something I don't possess.

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men.

Each would always be fascinated by the other–so long as each remained exactly what the other imagined.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of men.

I don't know why these things have to be transmitted by word of mouth, he thought. It wasn't exactly that they were secrets; God revealed his secrets easily to all his creatures. He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of life cannot be captured in pictures or words. Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World.

steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all

I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

What I'm most fascinated by is the ability of art to induce changes, but remain grounded solidly in its art practice.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.