Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is limited by time, and that as time is infinitely divisible, each of them is infinitely divisible also; all that is actual in it being a single moment, gone while we try to apprehend it, of which it may ever be more truly said that it has ceased to be than that it is. To such a tremulous wisp constantly reforming itself on the stream, to a single sharp impression, with a sense in it, a relic more or less fleeting, of such moments gone by, what is real in our life fines itself down.

~ Walter Pater

Walter Pater Criticism Essayist Experiential Literature

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a literary example, he says that F. Scott Fitzgerald once admitted to wrapping one of his romantic flings in cellophane for later artistic use and notes that this kind of heartless but honest professionalism is not uncommon among creative people.

~ Winifred Gallagher

Winifred Gallagher Artistic Attention Creative Experiential Focus Instrumental

He was the least spiritual of all the monks here, accepting nothing without proof. This skepticism was simultaneously his greatest asset and his greatest impediment.

~ Amy Thomson

Amy Thomson Buddhism Experiential Science Skepticism