"Art must be in touch with nature..." - Quote by Swami Vivekananda

“One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory.”

“Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love.”

“Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities.”

“Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.”

“Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?”

“Gather quicklyOut of darknessAll the songs you knowAnd throw them at the sunBefore they meltLike snow.”

“There is much in nature against us. But we forget:Take nature altogether since time began,Including human nature, in peace and war,And it must be a little more in favor of man.”

“Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.”

“Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”