The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
In "Gods", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
“You may call God truth, you may call God hope. But the best name for God is love.”
All Will be Well (2004)
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“Imagination may be called the dynamic force in art.”
Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: Imagination... implies originality. It results in a reflection... of the working mind of the designer.... Imagination may be called the dynamic force in art.... It is the quality which distinguishes the artistic from the photographic representation of nature.
1951 - 1968, The Creative Act', 1957
Context: I want to clarify our understanding of the word 'art' – to be sure, without an attempt to a definition. What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way as a bad emotion is still an emotion.
Therefore, when I refer to 'art coefficient', it will be understood that I refer not only to great art, but I am trying to describe the subjective mechanism which produces art in a raw state – 'à l'état brute' – bad, good or indifferent.
“Life may as properly be called an art as any other.”
Book I, Ch. 1
Amelia (1751)
Cathy Collison (November 16, 1983) "Savitch Remembered Crim In Will", Detroit Free Press, p. 14D.
“I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son,
the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers”
"Tarsier"
Poems New and Collected (1998), No End of Fun (1967)
Context: I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son,
the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers,
a tiny creature, made up of two pupils
and whatever simply could not be left out...
