“It is the purpose of art to heighten the mystery”
“Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)”
“Art is purposiveness without purpose.”
“Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.”
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.”
“Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural”