Tiel

“That point in time just as the last leaf is about to drop, as the remaining petal is about to fall; that moment captures everything beautiful and sorrowful about life. Mono no aware, the Japanese call it.”
― Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

“Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.”
― Nick Bantock

“As I understand it, civilization needs something approaching a shared view of reality in order to function. But that norm is inevitably narrow and blinkered. None of us really see, hear, and experience exactly the same thing as our neighbors; we merely agree on a colluded approximation, hoping that if we cling together we won’t get too disoriented. But our peripheral vision functions outside the agreed-upon norm and observes not just parts of but all of our sensory experiences. By bringing this “outside stuff” into focus,”
― Nick Bantock, The Trickster's Hat: A Mischievous Apprenticeship in Creativity

“The sooner we let go of holding on, the sooner we can hold on to the beauty of what's unfolding before us. Nothing was ever meant to stay the same forever.”
― Julieanne O'Connor