Creating Beauty Quotes - Page 2

• A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Believe, Writing

  "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Roberto Alifano, 1984.

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• All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.

  Charles Buxton

  Cold, Truth Is, Reaching

  Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”

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• Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Country, Fall, Autumn

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• Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.

  David Gelernter

  Beautiful, Learning, Winning

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• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Teacher, Giving Up

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Around 2am as I was performing misogi, I suddenly forgot all the martial techniques I had ever learned. The techniques of my teachers appeared completely new. Now they were vehicles for the cultivation of life, knowledge, and virtue, not devices to throw people with.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Teacher, People, Technique

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• Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

  Carl Sandburg

  Horizon, Fading, Explanation

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

  Joseph Joubert

  Doe, Instruments, Transport

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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