Childe Hassam Quotes

#1. The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Childe Hassam

#2. Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

Childe Hassam

#3. Before a man can become great, he must look foolish to the crowd.

I-Ching

#4. These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Childe Hassam

#5. The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

Childe Hassam

#6. I get so used to saying what I think people want to hear, I forget they might just want the truth sometimes.

Matt Malloy

#7. I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

Ray Bradbury

#8. It can often seem that those in power don't want us to enjoy making things for ourselves - they'd prefer to establish a cultural hierarchy that devalues our amateur efforts and encourages consumption rather than creation.

David Byrne

#9. It was human who said BLACK is SAD. I don't believe. You know why. Because I am BLACK but am HAPPY.

Ahamed Nafaz Raja.S.N

#10. What matters is to aid others, to have a group dream.

Frederick Lenz

#11. I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

Childe Hassam

#12. Nothing is so defective as those laws which correct defects.

Blaise Pascal

#13. I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.

Childe Hassam

#14. How to keep the seductive ghost of bliss long absconded from baiting you and hooking you and pulling you back out and eating your heart raw and (if you're lucky) eliminating your map for good.

David Foster Wallace

#15. But ... as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse
a lot worse
but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

Nicholas Sparks