hikaru

My favorite Quotes/Maxims: ============================="Know Thyself!" ============"....and I tell you that to paint one beautiful woman, I should need to see several beautiful women...." _ an excerpt from a letter of Raphael to Castiglione============================="...Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius...Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptatione...Pater eius est sol; mater eius est luna. Portavit illud ventus in venture suo; nutrix eius terra est...(What is below is as what is above, and what is above is as what is below, to accomplish the wonders of the one thing...And just as all things have been from the one, by the design of the one, so all things have been born from this one thing, adaptation...Its father is the sun; its mother is the moon. The wind carried it in its belly; its nurse is the earth...)" - from the Emerald Tablet ============================="Und a lang du das nicht hast, Dieses:Stirb und Werde! Bist du nur ein truber Gast Auf der dunklen Erde. (And till you have stood this test: "Die, and come to birth!" You remain a sorry guest on this gloomy earth.) - W. Goethe ======================================="COME IL PITTORE NON E LAUDABILE SE QUELLO NON E UNIVERSALE" (That a painter is not admirable unless he is universal.) - Leonardo da Vinci ========================================'Voici mon secret. Il set tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur' (Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.) from "The Little Prince" -Antoine de Saint-Exupery ===================================="It is highly understandable why, in the end, all becomes poetry. Doesn't the world, in the end, prove to be heart-felt spirit?""Madness and magic have many similarities. a magician is an artist of madness.""The heart is the key to the world and to life." "The greatest good endures in the imagination."- Novalis================================================"Arti st as gadfly: Every man who feels in himself the power to create must be a public plague. He must not wait till he is called, he must take no notice when he is dismissed. He must be what Homer praised in his heroes, a gadfly that attacks on one side when driven off from another." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe============================================== "Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this." - Blaise Pascal ================================================= "God is Eternal Now" - Joseph Murphy =================================================<>< ;><><><><><><><> ;<><><>,><><><><&g t;<><><><><><><>&l t;><><><><><>,><>& lt;>..>>>>>>>Besides the arts... I love to cook :Thai/Japanese/Italian/Indian... Photography (yes, this should be included in the arts...I know..), hiking, travelling, dining out..........