Quotes on Infinite Space

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.