Top 17 Gainsborough Quotes

#1. Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage.

Michael Leunig

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#2. The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Gainsborough Quotes #30314
#3. Combining storytelling, humanity, and laughter will give you a huge advantage in your public speaking and the odds are good that you already have all the raw material you need.

David Nihill

Gainsborough Quotes #97306
#4. A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

Saint Augustine

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#5. I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

Thomas Gainsborough

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#6. If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

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#7. We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

Thomas Gainsborough

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#8. The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?

Thich Nhat Hanh

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#9. Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Thomas Gainsborough

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#10. His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.

Emil Cioran

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#11. Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

Thomas Gainsborough

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#12. Bad circumstances have a way of ruining things that would otherwise be pleasant.

Lemony Snicket

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#13. Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

Thomas Gainsborough

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#14. Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.

Arthur Smith

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#15. Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

Idina Menzel

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#16. Somewhere outside, a goldfinch was singing. Or maybe it was a song sparrow. My dad tried to teach me different kinds of bird songs, but I couldn't quite remember.

Jenny Han

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#17. On a whim, I picked up a pen and flipped to the last page of the diary and wrote our names.
Alina Starkov
Maylen Oretsev
I wasn't sure why I did it. I just needed to say we had been there.

Leigh Bardugo

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