Please enjoy these 10 quotations on mystery. And please take a look at my latest book, Redesign Your Mind, available now.
1.
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
— Francis Bacon
2.
“Each work originates as does the cosmos–through catastrophes which out of the chaotic din of instruments create a symphony, the music of the spheres.”
— Wassily Kandinsky
3.
“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than in one that my mind could comprehend.”
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
4.
“That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
5.
“Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives in them.”
— Emil Nolde
6.
“Literature, music, and art are the most sensitive spheres in which the spiritual revolution makes itself felt.”
— Wassily Kandinsky
7.
“Art is eternal, for it reveals the inner landscape, which is the soul of man.”
— Martha Graham
8.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.”
— Albert Einstein
9.
“My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.”
— Hans Hofmann
10.
“I paint not by sight but by faith.”
— Amos Ferguson
God’s will and not our own.
Everything I paint is out of God given mysteries. There is a true story behind each painting.