George Bellows Quotes

#1. Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

George Bellows

#2. I'm - sorry about being a lousy date," Alec muttered.
"What are you talking about?" Magnus asked. "You're a fantastic date. You've only been here ten minutes, and I already got half of your clothes off.

Cassandra Clare

#3. The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

George Bellows

#4. Poor Flemps and his wife - they little thought what a serpent of deduction they had been nourishing in their cab.

Andrew Forrester

#5. Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff;
Life and these lips have long been separated:
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

William Shakespeare

#6. Goldberg claims time travel is easy. "It is simply a matter of using the Fifth Dimensional Travel exercise," he says, that he presents on his website.

Stephen Young

#7. I know that New York is big, there are huge buildings, but in fact, it's quite small and contained ...

Benjamin Clementine

#8. In later life, people will be impressed that you can quote Shakespeare, and you will sound very intelligent. It's harder to quote trigonometry, or quadratic equations, and not half as romantic.

John Connolly

#9. Try everything that can be done ... Learn your own possibilities.

George Bellows

#10. The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

George Bellows

#11. No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

J.J. Abrams

#13. Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

Abraham Verghese

#14. Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

George Bellows

#15. Music is part of Number Theory. Nowadays when a number-theorist applies for a grant, he says that it is good for security, but in those days, way before America, he would say that it's good for music. I will not comment whether we have progressed ...

Hendrik Lenstra

#16. With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be

RaeAnne Thayne

#17. You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

George Herbert

#18. Birds are colder than animals that live on the earth, because they are not conceived in such intense and heated desire. Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere.

Jenny Offill

#19. I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri ... My life began at this point.

George Bellows

#20. Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim - arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Jack Kornfield

#21. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Abigail Washburn