Alexander Smith
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
Petrarch
“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
Horace
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
Madame de Stael
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Henry Austin Dobson
“Love comes unseen; we only see it go.”
Steven Pinker
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
Lee Iacocca
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real…
Paul Muni
“Nature’s far too subtle to repeat herself.”
James Schuyler
“To change your phrase somewhat, I know that I like an art where disparate elements…
Simone Weil
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
Dylan Thomas
“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
Joyce Carol Oates
“In love there are two things – bodies and words.”
Francesco Guicciardini
“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”
Michael Korda
“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”
Christo
“The work of art is a scream of freedom.”
Henry Drummond
“To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.”
Charles Darwin
“The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”
Robert Quillen
“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that…
Luc de Clapiers
“Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
Matsuo Basho
“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
Barbara Hepworth
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to…
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
Armistead Maupin
“Being in love is the only transcendent experience.”
Aristotle Onassis
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Georges Simenon
“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”
Susan Sontag
“Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.”