Books Art Beauty Quotes

#1. We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.

William James

#2. It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. Sometimes I think my own brain might be a bitch whose sole purpose is to make me feel shitty. To quote Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle, "Why won't my brain let me be happy?

L. H. Cosway

#4. If I could wish for anything else, it would be a little more moderation, a little more tolerance, and a little more of the trustful innocence of that boy who learned his prayers at the knee of the gentle, kindly old priest at the Sisters' Convent school.

Jack Black

#5. My life was a wandering; I never had a homeland. It was a matter of being constantly tossed about, without rest; nowhere and never did I find a home.

Jan Amos Komensky

#6. If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

Chris Crutcher

#7. If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities.

Neville Cardus

#8. In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. I have asked to have no funeral, and no memorial service. I hate other people's and would certainly not appreciate my own.

Charles Saatchi

#10. The finest people marry the two sexes in their own person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.

Rivera Sun

#12. [BURR]
I am the one thing in life I can control.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#13. I think Mad saw in books what I saw in art: the weightless beauty of the universe.

David Arnold

#14. The only way to understand yourself or your life is to start with God. And right at the very beginning the Bible takes us there. If you are not clear about this, you will go wrong everywhere else.

Martin Lloyd-Jones

#15. Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.

Tryon Edwards

#16. There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk

Susan Pace-Koch