wonder Quotes

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

An honest man is always a child.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won't be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.