„The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.“

— Anaïs Nin

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„What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.“
— Albert Einstein
„Let us assume that the artist does not OWE anybody anything: nevertheless, it is painful to see how, by retiring into his self-made worlds or the spaces of his subjective whims, he CAN surrender the real world into the hands of men who are mercenary, if not worthless, if not insane.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.“
— John Ruskin
„There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.“
— Anaïs Nin
„One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made. That this is still the morning of creation. That mountains, long conceived, are now being born, brought to light by the glaciers, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes.“
— John Muir