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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.
Everybody's got plants, but most are just growing weeds. The cultivated have greater gardens, finer and gaudier gardens.
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.
It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
The power of association is stronger than the power of beauty; therefore, the power of association is the power of beauty.
The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.
I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.
Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.
You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.
No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.
With art criticism it's difficult to discuss beauty, to assess it, because there's always the possibility that we're insane.
In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever
Even if one succeeds in making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, there remains the problem of what to do with a one-eared sow.
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.
Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
No girl who is well bred, 'kind, and modest, is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners, or of heart.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.
... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.
In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands.
It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.