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Your Quotes for 15 September 2005 - Mystery

Our world was made delightfully more complex on this day in 1890, we were forced to admit a little more mystery in our thinking, and we enjoyed it. It was the birth at Torquay, Devonshire, England of Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller, we remember her as Dame Agatha Christie. How much did we enjoy it? Enough to make her the best-selling novelist of all time, translated into more languages than any other author. Here's to Mystery.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
     - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
     - R. I. Fitzhenry

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
     - Rachel Louise Carson, 1907 - 1964

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
     - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.
     - J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1904 - 1967

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
     - Edgar Degas, 1834 - 1917

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