Quote

But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

Anais Nin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Neuilly
Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
Anais Nin
Ultimately
Inspiring
Transfigure
Magic
Transpose
Create
Persists
Artist
Transmitted
Others
Persist
Power
Transform
Empowering

More quotes by Anais Nin

Image
I believe that in judging our actions we are more severe than professional judges. We judge not only our actions, but our thoughts, our intentions, our secret curses, our hidden hate.
Anais Nin
Image
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
Anais Nin
Image
The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.
Anais Nin
Image
I adore the struggle you carry in yourself. I adore your terrifying sincerity.
Anais Nin
Image
Our psychological reality, which lies below the surface, frightens us because it endlessly surprises us and drives us in a direction which society's rules and organizations define as wrong or dangerous.
Anais Nin
Image
He was jealous of her future, and she of his past.
Anais Nin
Image
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.
Anais Nin
Image
At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.
Anais Nin
Image
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
Anais Nin
Image
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
Anais Nin
Image
I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.
Anais Nin
Image
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
Anais Nin
Image
I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later you always give something you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another.
Anais Nin
Image
I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self.
Anais Nin
Image
she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.
Anais Nin
Image
In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.
Anais Nin
Image
My diary seems to keep me whole.
Anais Nin
Image
It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
Anais Nin
Image
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
Anais Nin
Image
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.
Anais Nin