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• The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Self

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• Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare.

  Joseph Campbell

  Artist, Speak, Poet

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• I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Good Work, Knows

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• Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

  Eudora Welty

  Running, People, Waiting

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.38, Modern Library

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• To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Irreparable Harm, Quality

  Interview with John Richardson, December 1, 1957.

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• In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Science, Men

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• Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Rivers, Forever

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

  Wendell Berry

  Miracle, Alive, Knows

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition”, Counterpoint Press

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• The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

  Freeman Dyson

  Conscious, Unsolved Mysteries, Existence

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.

  John Jay Chapman

  Secret, Generations, Enthusiasm

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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• I seldom try to probe the mystery of my sloth. I have squandered a gigantic fortune of work hours... seems likely that I'll go on squandering till the very end.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Sloth, Trying, Goes On

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy (1983). “October”, London : Methuen

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• Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

  Michael Beckwith

  Self, Purpose, Individual

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• I had the luck at 18 to become assistant to Christian Dior, and to succeed him at 21 and to meet with success from my first collection in 1958. That will be 44 years in a few days. Above all it was Christian Dior who was my master and who was the first to reveal the secrets and mysteries of haute couture.

  Christian Dior

  Christian, Years, Secret

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• Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.

  Cennino Cennini

  Art, Real, Unseen Things

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• It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.

  Rollo May

  Moving, Creativity, Artist

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  New York, Real, Book

  "MENLO PARK / Read it and weep: Kepler's closes" by Alan Gathright, www.sfgate.com. September 01, 2005.

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• Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery .. once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation.

  Rex Harrison

  Needs, Charming, Characteristics

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

  Daniel Dennett

  Confused, Lasts, Tongue

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• Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

  William Morris Hunt

  Children, Writing, Later In Life

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• A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

  Denis Donoghue

  Art, Expression, Syntax

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• My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals.

  Katherine Dunn

  Animal, Reflection, Painting

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• The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.

  Mickey Hart

  Believe, Adventure, Artist

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• There's a universe inside your head - a place of pictures and passions, of songs and sorrows. It's everything you are - and it's an utter mystery.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Song, Passion, Sorrow

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• The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Issues, Individual

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• Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Art, Creativity, Air

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