{"quotes":[{"text":"Beauty surrounds us, but oftentimes it takes a person with a poetic perception, an artist’s way of looking at the world, to first notice the sublime, and then stagecraft the splendor of nature so that other people can perceive their synoptic vision. The spirit and aesthetic intention behind the work is what assigns the work its artistic quality. Great works of poetry and writing, for instance, express not simply a criticism of life, but also encompass a philosophy for living.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aesthetic","art","artistic-vision","artists","beauty","beauty-in-nature","creative-expression","creative-process","philosphy-of-life","poetry","poetry","writing","writing-process"],"id":9003,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.","author":"Anna Katharine Green","tags":["art","artistic-expression","artistic-passion","artistic-vision","artists","artists-life","beauty"],"id":132742,"author_id":"Anna+Katharine+Green"},{"text":"Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["alphabet","artist","artistic","artistic-endeavor","artistic-expression","artistic-process","artistic-vision","artistry","artists","artists-life","artists","arts","collective","communication","communication","contemporary-art","history","iconic-imagery","iconicimagery","iconography","symbolic","symbolism","symbols"],"id":180384,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"},{"text":"I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["artist","artistic-endeavor","artistic-expression","artistic-vision","artistry","artists","artists-life","artists","best-friend","best-friend","best-friends","contemporary-art","pop","pop-art","pop-culture","pop-music","popular-culture","rebel","rebelling","rebellion","rebellious","rebelliousness","spirit","transgression","transgressions","transgressive"],"id":261201,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"},{"text":"Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that we are merely bit players in the game of life. Witnessing the majesty of beauty confirms that the real show lies outside us to observe and appreciate and not inside us to transfix us. True beauty charms us into seeing the grandeur of goodness that surrounds us and by doing so, the pristine splendor of nature releases us from wallowing in the poverty of our self-idealization. The bewitching spell cast by the exquisiteness of nature levitates our souls and transforms our psyche. When we see, hear, taste, smell, or touch what is beautiful, we cannot suppress the urge to replicate its baffling texture by singing, dancing, painting, or writing. Opening our eye to the loveliness of a single flower is how we stay in touch with the glorious pageantry of living.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["art","artist","artistic-endeavor","artistic-expression","artistic-passion","artistic-vision","artists","beauty","beauty-in-life","beauty-in-nature","beauty-of-life","beauty","dancing","flower","flowers","self-absorption","singing","writing"],"id":273420,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.","author":"Don DeLillo","tags":["art","artistic-vision","artists","death","literature","robert-mccrum","time"],"id":288507,"author_id":"Don+DeLillo"},{"text":"An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["artistic","artistic-creativity","artistic-endeavor","artistic-expression","artistic-inspiration","artistic-passion","artistic-process","artistic-vision","autobiography","human-nature","journey-of-becoming","journey-of-self-discovery","journey-of-the-mind","journey-of-the-soul","journey-of-your-life","memoir","memoir-writing","narrative-writing","self-discovery","self-truth","story-of-a-soul","story-of-life","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers-on-writing-books","writers-voice","writing","writing-philosophy","writing-process"],"id":292450,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover where their pain originates, follow pain to where it emanates from, learn from its messages, and reject the mindless business and busyness of contemporary culture in order to fuel an artistic vision of the self.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["artist","artistic-expression","artistic-passion","artistic-vision","awaken-within","awakened-mind","awakened-soul","awakening","busyness","mindless","mindlessness","pain","pain","self-awareness"],"id":329047,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes pertaining to whatever topics of thought intrigues the author. Writing is a twitchy art, which attempts to employ linguist building blocks handed-down from past generations. Writers’ word choices form a structure of conjoined sentences when overlaid with the lingua of modern culture. Writers attempt to emulate in concrete form the synesthesia of our personal pottage steeped in our most vivid feelings. Writing a personal essay calls for us to sort out a jungle of lucid observations and express in a tangible technique our unique interpretation of coherent observations interlaced with that effusive cascade of yearning, the universal spice of unfilled desire, which turmoil of existential angst swamps us.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["anguish","artistic","artistic-courage","artistic-creativity","artistic-endeavor","artistic-expression","artistic-passion","artistic-process","artistic-vision","dreamers","dreams","essay-writing","essayist","essays","existential","existential-anguish","journey-of-becoming","journey-of-life","journey-of-self-discovery","journey-of-the-mind","journey-of-the-soul","journey-of-your-life","memoir","memoir-writing","personal-essay","stories","storytelling","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers-on-writing-books","writers-on-writing-life","writers-voice","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","yearning"],"id":351639,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.","author":"Diego Rivera","tags":["art","artistic-vision","artists","life","painting","vision"],"id":369242,"author_id":"Diego+Rivera"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}