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At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works of the Lord of Oneness.
(Bahá'u'lláh)

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
(George Bancroft)

Proclaim unto the children of assurance that within the realms of holiness, nigh unto the celestial paradise, a new garden hath appeared, round which circle the denizens of the realm on high and the immortal dwellers of the exalted paradise. Strive, then, that ye may attain that station, that ye may unravel the mysteries of love from its wind-flowers and learn the secret of divine and consummate wisdom from its eternal fruits. Solaced are the eyes of them that enter and abide therein!
(Bahá’u'lláh, The Hidden Words)

O people of the world! Build ye houses of worship throughout the lands in the name of Him Who is the Lord of all religions. Make them as perfect as is possible in the world of being, and adorn them with that which befitteth them, not with images and effigies. Then, with radiance and joy, celebrate therein the praise of your Lord, the Most Compassionate. Verily, by His remembrance the eye is cheered and the heart is filled with light.
(Bahá’u'lláh)

I dreamed That stone by stone I reared a sacred fane,
A temple, neither Pagoda, Mosque nor Church,
But loftier, simpler, always open-doored
To every breath from heaven, and Truth and Peace
And Love and Justice came and dwelt therein.
(Tennyson, Akbar's Dream, 1892)

Although to outward seeming the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar is a material structure, yet it hath a spiritual effect. It forgeth bonds of unity from heart to heart; it is a collective centre for men's souls.
(Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha)

The lights of the All-Glorious Realm, the rays of the Supreme Horizon, will be cast upon such bright assemblages, for these are none other than the Mashriqu'l-Adhkars, the Dawning-Points of God's Remembrance, which must, at the direction of the Most Exalted Pen, be established in every hamlet and city.
(Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha)

Myriads of mystic tongues find utterance in one speech, and myriads of hidden mysteries are revealed in a single melody; yet, alas, there is no ear to hear, nor heart to understand.
(Bahá’u'lláh, The Hidden Words)

Any great work of art ... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."
(Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?, Vogue)

One should photograph objects, not only for what they are, but for what else they are.
(Minor White)

Blessed is he who, at the hour of dawn, centring his thoughts on God, occupied with His remembrance, and supplicating His forgiveness, directeth his steps to the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar and, entering therein, seateth himself in silence to listen to the verses of God, the Sovereign, the Mighty, the All-Praised. Say: The Mashriqu'l-Adhkar is each and every building which hath been erected in cities and villages for the celebration of My praise.
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas)

When the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar is accomplished, when the lights are emanating therefrom, the righteous ones are presenting themselves therein, the prayers are performed with supplication towards the mysterious Kingdom, the voice of glorification is raised to the Lord, the Supreme, then the believers shall rejoice, the hearts shall be dilated and overflow with the love of the All-living and Self- existent God.
('Abdu'l-Baha, Compilations, Baha'i World Faith)

Developing a composition is a continuous flow of ideas, where the artist combines, adds, reduces, adapts and discards the various elements in an unending discovery of new possibilities.
(Alessandra Bitelli)

It's a blue world
It takes somebody to help somebody
Oh it's a blue world
It's a new world
It needs somebody to love somebody
Oh it's a blue world
(Moody Blues, Justin Hayward, Blue World)

I did comprehend the whole world ... and the abyss and ocean and all things. In these things I beheld naught but divine power.
(Angela of Foligno)

Whereupon the clouds of the Divine Will were raised to rain upon thee the outpourings of heavenly wisdom, to divest thee of all that thou hadst acquired aforetime, to draw thee from the realms of contradiction unto the retreats of oneness, and to lead thee to the sacred streams of His Law. Perchance thou mayest quaff therefrom, repose therein, quench thy thirst, refresh thy soul, and be numbered with those whom the light of God hath guided aright in this day.
(Baha'u'llah, Gems of Divine Mysteries)

Myths are the world's dreams. They are archetypal dreams and deal with great human problems. Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that then have to find expression in symbolic form.
(Joseph Campbell)

Everything shows me its face, its innermost being, its secret soul, which is more often silent than heard.
(Wassily Kandinsky)

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
(Diane Arbus)

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
(Helen Keller)

Teach your children the verses revealed from the heaven of majesty and power, so that, in most melodious tones, they may recite the Tablets of the All-Merciful in the alcoves within the Mashriqu'l-Adhkars.
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas)

Music is regarded as a praiseworthy science at the Threshold of the Almighty, so that thou mayest chant verses at large gatherings and congregations in a most wondrous melody and raise such hymns of praise at the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar to enrapture the Concourse on High. By virtue of this, consider how much the art of music is admired and praised.
('Abdu'l-Baha, The Compilation of Compilations)

"Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them."
Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?

The world of existence may be likened to this temple and place of worship. For just as the external world is a place where the people of all races and colors, varying faiths, denominations and conditions come together -- just as they are submerged in the same sea of divine favors -- so, likewise, all may meet under the dome of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar and adore the one God in the same spirit of truth; for the ages of darkness have passed away, and the century of light has come.
('Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace)

Color is a power which directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammer, the soul is the strings.The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
(Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art)

I have hundreds of photographs I've taken that can often inspire me, and they may be photographs I've overlooked before. They can just look "different" this time, create a spark and a color mood that pushes me to my paints.
(Nancy Tipton Steensen)

The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.
(Wassily Kandinsky)