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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

Photographic cropping is always experienced as a rupture in the continuous fabric of reality.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Poor Georgia O'Keeffe. Death didn't soften the opinions of the art world toward her paintings.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

A kitten is the delight of a household. All day long, comedy is played by an incomparable actor.

Certainty sees things in restrictive, protective, aggressive ways, and thus isn't seeing at all.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

If you would know what a cat is thinking about, you must hold its paw in your hand for a long time.

He is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a hair of it shall lie the wrong way.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle

For Rembrandt, reality is role-playing.... Everyone is portrayed in relation to a social hierarchy.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.

There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

Art is always subject to change in a moment by somebody who's strong enough to shed new light on it.

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

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