Pearlie

“A true artistic image gives the beholder a simultaneous experience of the most complex, contradictory, sometimes even mutually exclusive feelings. It is not possible to catch the moment at which the positive goes over into its opposite, or when the negative starts moving towards the positive. Infinity is germane, inherent in the very structure of the image.”
― Andre Tarkovsky

“The great artists of the past were aware that human life was full of chaos and suffering but they had a remedy for this and the name of that remedy was beauty. The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy, it shows human life to be worthwhile”
― Roger Scruton

“A man with a clear head looks at life directly, realises that everything is problematic, and feels himself lost. And this is the simple truth, that to be alive is to feel oneself lost. And he who accepts this has already begun to find himself, to be on solid ground.”
― Ortega y Gasset

“Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm...Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson