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Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer. ↗

— Piet Hein

#design #art

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#desire #expectations #fear #mystery #art

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#desire #art

He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and a very indifferent artist.It seemed to him that the glow of happiness must ne found either in action, of some immensely solid kind,on behalf of an idea, or in producing a masterpiece in one of the arts. ↗

— Henry James

#grand-designs #purpose-of-life #reformer #art

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved. ↗

— Ralph Alfred Habas

#p #art

Instead of chasing the idea of truth, what we should be doing is embracing the medium of drawing and using it for a purpose that fulfils our needs as an artist or designer. ↗

— Peter Stanyer

#artist #design #drawing #truth #art

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ↗

— Tommy Armour

#bodily #designed #golf #graceful #produce

A Marquetry Odyssey: Historical Objects and Personal Work ↗

— by Glenn Adamson Foreword By Silas Kopf

#design-furniture #marquetry #art

To desire to change one’s past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#desire #learn #attitude

The human body is the best work of art. ↗