Quotes About Wonder

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.

I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

We go see theater, we take in art because it makes us feel.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

shocked to realize how much vitality is required simply to support our primitive requirements, we wonder, bewildered, where Art fits in.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

A good piece of art raises questions.

While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.

And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.

Philosophers wonder when they do not know, artists when they do.

I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.