Silvia BlueAlien

“The problem is we don’t notice the years pass, he thought. Screw the years—we don’t notice things change. We know that things change, we’ve been told since childhood that things change, we’ve witnessed things change ourselves many a time, and yet we’re still utterly incapable of noticing the moment that change comes—or we search for change in all the wrong places.”
― Arkady Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic

“Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the complex and far-reaching physical consequences, a deep sense of respect for the power of the symmetry laws never fails to develop.”
― Chen Ning Yang

“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art