Quotes with revelation

  • Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
  • The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

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  • William James An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Adam Clarke As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species of enemy, and every mode of attack. Truth is mighty, and must prevail.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Phillips Brooks Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Eileen Caddy Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Michel Leiris Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream - a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows - is essentially poetry.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Margaret Halsey He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • John McGahern I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
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    John McGahern
    Irish writer and novelist (1934 - 2006)
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  • Richard of Saint Victor Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Toni Morrison No one ever talks about the moment you found that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That's a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Robert Fitzgerald Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.
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  • Richard Dawkins Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Simone de Beauvoir Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside - from others. We do not accept it willingly.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Ben Shahn So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Ansel Adams Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Carlos Santana The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Harold Rosenberg The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
    Harold Rosenberg
    American art criticus, writer (1906 - 1978)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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