From Kazuo Ishiguro: “An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
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Quote of the day 09/12/25
From Kazuo Ishiguro: “What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
Quote of the day 08/03/25
From John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
Quote of the day 08/01/25
From John Keats: “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
Quote of the day 07/20/25
From Basho: “What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No mater what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon ourContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/20/25”
Quote of the day 11/19/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.”
Quote of the day 11/18/24
From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/18/24”
Quote of the day 10/30/24
From Plutarch: “Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.”
Quote of the day 10/24/24
From Desiderius Erasmus: “And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will enjoy some of the ineffable share in the supreme good which draws everything into itself.”
Quote of the day 10/12/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Look closely. The beautiful may be small.”
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