All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external worl...d by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miracul...ous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act... awaits them, their act ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let our hearts, as subtle masters do, Stir up their servants to an act of rage... And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make Our purpose necessary, and not envious; Which so appearing to the common eyes, We shall be called purgers, not murderers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No care, no stop; so senseless of expense That he will neither know how to maintain it... Nor cease his flow of riot, takes no account How things go from him, nor resumes no care Of what is to continue.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart... In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,... But with a little act upon the blood Burn like the mines of sulphur.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »