Quotes About Transcendence

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.

I cannot say Who Art in Heaven-If all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

I also think there's something about dance, music and the arts that transcends all other types of communication and expression.

You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!

An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself through his works!

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

When I looked upon the surface of the gently flowing water, each painting that I had burned upon joining the church rose from the waves. I tried to grab them, but they dissolved upon touch.

When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

The modern mind always tends to reduce the greater to the lesser rather than seeing the lesser as reflecting the greater.

I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world. I only believe in poetry.

When you're attuned to Spirit, there is nothing in the outer world that matters.

Goddamn sometimes I only want this feeling to stay and last.

Het zonlicht over de schouder van de winkelbediende was wit en gelijkmatig, en toen hij ons glazen water inschonk was het het helderste water dat ik ooit had gezien. Het was de onverdunde ziel van de wereld.