“For what was art, she thought, but the heart and soul made visible.”

— Jane Yolen

Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Pot Child (p. 110)

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American speculative fiction and children's writer 1939

Aaron Weiss

We Know Who Our Enemies Are.
A→B Life (2002)

“She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Thou, Poetry, in absence wert a chain,
Binding our hearts together: where so well
As in thy numbers, could I pour my soul,
In soothing tenderness? 'twas bliss, to make
Thought visible to those of whom I thought.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Farewell
The Fate of Adelaide (1821)

“This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest… She was free, for love liberates.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Fifth Mountain Intl

“Art's means of representing a thing – style, technique and the object represented – are circumstances of art, just as the artist's individual qualities (way of life, abilities, environment and so on) are circumstances of art. Art can just as well be made in harmony with the circumstances of its making as in defiance of them. In itself art is neither visible nor definable: all that is visible and imitable is its circumstances, which are easily mistaken for the art itself.”

Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932

undated quotes, The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings (1962-1993)

“Bless your soul, you've got you're head in the clouds,
You made a fool out of you,
And, boy, she's bringing you down,
She made your heart melt,
But you're cold to the core,
Now rumour has it she ain't got your love anymore.”

Adele (singer) (1988) British singer-songwriter

Rumour Has It, written by Adele and Ryan Tedder
Song lyrics, 21 (2011)

“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.

“Fraser’s mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo-intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place.”

Craig Ferguson book Between the Bridge and the River

Between the Bridge and the River (2006)

“Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one!”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“The complicated, crazy and audacious woman… the woman who sculpts the thought, who knows how to excite and fascinate… the woman who smells of life and love: she kidnaps mind, soul and heart.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: La donna complicata, pazza e audace... la donna che scolpisce il pensiero, che sa emozionare e affascinare... la donna che profuma di vita e amore: rapisce mente, anima e cuore.
Source: prevale.net

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