#known

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#artist #away #energies #feeling #follows

A man is known by the company he organizes. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#known #man #organizes

I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money. ↗

— Bjork

#designers #else #i #i do #make

In the late 30s the name Pollock was totally unknown and unheard of. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#name #pollock #totally #unheard #unknown

Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself. ↗

— Phillip Mann

#criticism #culture #mystery #prejudice #the-unknown

The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever. ↗

— Fritz Leiber

#supernatural #unknown #men

The best way to easily identify a counterfeit currency is to have a full exposure to the original currency. If you don't know your true vision, any satanic vision can cross your way and you might not know it. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#coins #counterfeit #cross #currency #dream-big

There is a faculty in man that will acknowledge the unseen. He may scout and scare religion from him; but if he does, superstition perches near. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#superstition #unknown #unseen #religion

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#agent #been #brand #collection #editors

I was known as the little girl with the big voice. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#girl #i #known #little #little girl