"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art." Ambrose Bierce |
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." Horace Walpole |
"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." Lewis Carroll |
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." Elizabeth Taylor |
"Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see." Paul Cezanne |
"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning." William Arthur Ward |
"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown." Stephen Gardiner |
"When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together." Tadao Ando |
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." Anais Nin |
"I didn't think; I experimented." Anthony Burgess |
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T. S. Eliot |
"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why." William Barclay |
"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it." Alfred Hitchcock |
"The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it." Jordan B. Peterson |
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." Arthur C. Clarke |
"The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience." Mark Manson |
"Words are but the signs of ideas." Samuel Johnson |
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one." Charles Horton Cooley |
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul." Joseph Addison |
"To be or not to be. That's not really a question." Jean-Luc Godard |
"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs." Thomas Wolfe |
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day." James Joyce |
"We are all born mad. Some remain so." Samuel Beckett |
"It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me." Christian Bale |
"My life needs editing." Mort Sahl |
"The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent." Carl Sagan |
"I improve on misquotation." Cary Grant |
"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep." W. H. Auden |
"We live in a rainbow of chaos." Paul Cezanne |
"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty." Edgar Allan Poe |
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