Quotes by Authors - Page 212

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Susan Sontag
Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
Oscar Wilde
Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.
Ned Rorem
Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.
Ned Rorem
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
G.K. Chesterton
Every story has three sides to it - yours mine and the facts.
Foster Meharny Russell
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Dean Rusk
Some guy hit my fender the other day and I said unto him "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.
Woody Allen
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Victor Hugo
Many can argue not many converse.
Louisa May Alcott
Old houses mended Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Anonymous
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts.
John F Kennedy
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A house is a machine for living.
Buckminster Fuller
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms getting back to first principles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.
Etienne Gaboury
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Good architecture lets nature in.
Mario Pei
Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.
Alan Kay
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
Frank Lloyd Wright
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
Robert A. M. Stern
Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.
Walter Colton
The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Bierce
There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washington
When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
John F Kennedy
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.
Edward Hubbell Chapin
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren
We all have music inside us and can learn how to get it out one way or another.
Frank Wilson
God respects me when I work but loves me when I sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
Without music life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.
George Eliot
When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.
Henry David Thoreau
Music is the child of prayer the companion of religion.
Chateaubriand
Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is sheer miracle.
Frederick Franck
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
Kimon Nicolaides
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Each of us is an artist capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the depths of our being.
Dorothy Fadiman
Art is a staple like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.
Irving Stone
Every day tell at least one person something you like admire or appreciate about them.
Richard Carlson
Find the good - and praise it.
Alex Haley
Down deep we really know our worth but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Barbara Sher
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
George Matthew Adams
When someone does something well applaud I You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
Animals feed man eats die man of intellect alone knows how to eat.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.
Jonathan Swift
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Lord Chesterfield
All that glisters is not gold.
Miguel de Cervantes
Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four but he worries about it.
Anonymous
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
Dean William R. Inge
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
Karl Menninger
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Søren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
Rollo May
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Ann Landers
I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Erica Jong
Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.
Katherine Paterson