Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
Interpretation
Great art connects deeply with human experience, regardless of cultural background.
This quote emphasizes the idea that true art goes beyond the limits of its cultural context, resonating with universal themes and emotions that remain timeless. It suggests that great art has the ability to speak to the human condition and evoke a profound response in anyone, regardless of their cultural background.
In practice
This quote can be used during an art exhibition to highlight the universal impact of the artwork.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
For me, choosing between fiction and nonfiction is really only about picking the right tool for the job.
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
Individual writers have different postures, different stances, even different physical attitudes as they stand or sit over their blank paper, and in a sense, without doing it, they are crossing themselves; I mean, it's like the habit of Catholics going into water: you cross yourself before you go in.
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