Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with ...the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And this mighty master of the organ of language, who knew its every stop and pipe, who could awaken at will the thin silver tones ...of its slenderest reeds or the solemn cadence of its deepest thunder, who could make it sing like a flute or roar like a cataract, he was born into a country without literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She represents the unavowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity--and infidelity of a very special kind, w...hich would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the "woman of wax" whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of ...its forms merely,--but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at will in every attitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See how peaceful it is here. The sea is everything. An immense reservoir of nature where I roam at will.... Think of it. On the su...rface there is hunger and fear. Men still exercise unjust laws. They fight, tear one another to pieces. A mere few feet beneath the waves their reign ceases, their evil drowns. Here on the ocean floor is the only independence. Here I am free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at ...the will of his imagination and--with a single glance--have his soul invaded by the most profound recollections; no effort of memory, everything is summed up in one instant. A complete art which sums up all the others and completes them. Like music, it acts on the soul through the intermediary of the senses: harmonious colors correspond to the harmonies of sound. But in painting a unity is obtained which is not possible in music, where the accords follow one another, so that the judgment experiences a continuous fatigue if it wants to reunite the end with the beginning. The ear is actually a sense inferior to the eye. The hearing can only grasp a single sound at a time, whereas the sight takes in everything and simultaneously simplifies it at will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the proud joys of the man of letters--if that man of letters is an artist--is to feel within himself the power to immortali...ze at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Play is a major avenue for learning to manage anxiety. It gives the child a safe space where she can experiment at will, suspendin...g the rules and constraints of physical and social reality. In play, the child becomes master rather than subject.... Play allows the child to transcend passivity and to become the active doer of what happens around her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »