It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Quote by Anais Nin

Topics: Magic Quotes

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish...

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no...

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Dreams are necessary to life.

Dreams are necessary to life.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard....

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous...

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich...

There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich...

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love...

People living deeply have no fear of death.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant...

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons....

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing,...

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more...