"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."

Wonder, Dignity, Duty, Lies

55

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."

Exlpore more Wonder quotes

"The stars were so simple when she was a kid, a smattering of glowing dust circling the Earth. She did not then know that each was a sun, most considerably more massive than the daylight one she knew."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Wonder, Stars, Childhood, Universe

"You have to choose your own destiny. You have to choose your own path in life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Wonder, Destiny, Path, Life, Decision

"I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Wonder, Mystery, Worship, Truth

"The wonderful world!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Wonder, World, Marvelous, Life, Beauty

"I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that a signboard had one word spelled wrong, and wondering in his headlong flight why nobody had thought of correcting it. In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles-no matter the imminent peril-these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from common sense and its logic, that we know the world to be good."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Wonder, Life, Tragedy, Curiosity

"When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Wonder, Reality, Beauty, Truth, Inspirational

"The beauty of life is a great wonder."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Wonder, Beauty, Life, Great

"O, wonder!How many goodly creatures are there here!How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,That has such people in't!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Wonder, Happiness, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Philosophy begins in wonder."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

Wonder, Philosophy

"The night sky made her feel infinite before she knew the word."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Wonder, Night, Sky, Infinity

Explore more quotes by Marc Chagall

"In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love."

Life

"I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more."

Marriage

"All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites."

Friendship

"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."

Heart

"I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment."

Work

"Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love."

Love

"Great art picks up where nature ends."

Nature

"When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art."

Art

"Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life."

Life

"The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep."

Wonder