Quotes About Wonder

A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop our curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiveness is bitter or sweet.

The journey of patience involves relaxing, opening to what's happening, experiencing a sense of wonder.

You are offered the potential of opening up into the as-yet unknown, the much bigger world where there are smells you've never smelled, there are sights you've never seen, and there are sounds you've never heard. What you could experience is so much vaster than what you currently experience. Let's go in that direction. TS:

He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

Play is a necessary ingredient in art because there is a kind of wonder that goes on when you play. You're directing your activity toward a conclusion that isn't prescribed by a particular method.

Art is a sense of magic.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

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

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, 'What is it?' In that moment art can be created.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

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