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Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Hope- the recognition, by true foresight, of better things to be reached here after.
We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.
Whatever else art is good for, its chief effectiveness lies in propagating more art.
All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.
To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.
Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline.
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.
I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.
There's not much to know about me other than I like meeting artists and I like yakking.
Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
If you can draw the stone rightly, everything within reach of art is also within yours.
I have painted enough to have a lot of respect for mediocre painters. It's really hard.
The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.
To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.
To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin
Without mountains the air could not be purified, nor the flowing of the rivers sustained.
You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.
Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.
I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.
Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.
All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.