This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
A man's work whether in music, painting or literature is always a portrait of himself.
Literature | Man | Music | Wisdom | Work |
Communication of all kinds is like painting - a compromise with impossibilities.
Wisdom |
Edgar Degas, born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
Simonides, aka Simonedes of Ceos NULL
Painting is silent poetry, poetry painting that speaks.
Art is revelation. If painting shows only what is there, it is not art. Art like fine music or high literature must carry the beholder beyond this world and all that appears in it, transport him to the shores of the eternal world and enable him to see and hear the things not given to the tongue of man to utter.
Art | Eternal | Literature | Man | Music | Revelation | World | Art |
Imagine your life is a painting in progress and you are the artist. Each new moment, a blank space on your canvas. The ones painted are your past. Each new moment, another brush stroke, created from your hand, moved by spirit, mind, heart and soul. Strive to make your painting a "masterpiece," and alas - when it is finished, Life will proclaim, "Ahh yes ... well done!"
Heart | Life | Life | Mind | Past | Progress | Soul | Space | Spirit | Will |
Bertrand Russell, fully Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
Mathematics... possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
Art | Beauty | Mathematics | Music | Nature | Perfection | Truth | Art | Beauty |
Henry Miller, aka Henry Valentine Miller
There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words; and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life, the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
Excellence | Life | Life | Quiet | Strength | Success | Will | Words |
Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
Poetry |
Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
I`m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it`s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It`s not just an art form; it`s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It`s my way of telling a story.
Etty Hillesum, formally Ester "Etty" Hillesum
I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed.
Writing |
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
When ambition enters, creativity disappears -- because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future -- and a creative person is always in the present.
Ambition | Creativity | Future | Love | Man | Writing | Ambition |