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Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.

Byrd Gibbens

Stichwörter: arts trickster

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein

Stichwörter: life existence arts sciences freedom religion purpose-of-life

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Charles Darwin

Stichwörter: life arts music poetry

Give a poet a pen

A. Jarrell Hayes

Stichwörter: humor life inspirational arts poetry writing poem culture author liberal-arts

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Stichwörter: arts

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

John Stuart Mill

Stichwörter: arts music philosophy leisure pleasure

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to
become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your
parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can
do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite
hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've
been to college.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Stichwörter: arts education hurt writers-on-writing

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

O. Henry

Stichwörter: art arts music painting paint bullets soft-bullet

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

Virginia Woolf

Stichwörter: arts empowerment gender women creativity liberation artists skills abilities encroachment occupation careers women-writers restrictions