Alexandre Dumas
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
Federico Fellini
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
A. R. Ammons
“In nature there are few sharp lines.”
Hannah Arendt
“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the…
Charles Ives
“Every great inspiration is but an experiment – though every experiment we know, is not…
Russell Baker
“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
Anne Frank
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
Dick Dale
“Every song is like a painting.”
Nicholas Sparks
“Loving once and only once is possible – anything is possible.”
M. Scott Peck
“Ultimately love is everything.”
Matthew Prior
“Hope is but the dream of those who wake.”
William Cullen Bryant
“Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring?”
Vernon Howard
“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really…
Egon Schiele
“Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.”
Miguel de Cervantes
“The eyes those silent tongues of love.”
Eugenio Montale
“In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.”
Frederick William Faber
“The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.”
Joshua Reynolds
“A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.”
Jasper Johns
“I am not strong on perfection.”
D. H. Lawrence
“The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.”
Orson Scott Card
“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
William Law
“Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.”
Adolf Loos
“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”
Bhumibol Adulyadej
“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.”
Ella Maillart
“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of…
Alexis de Tocqueville
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no…
Alexander Smith
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
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…