Inness Quotes

#1. He's a closet gentleman,

Gena Showalter

#2. I want to be very clear: whenever it is possible to capture a suspected terrorist, it is the unqualified preference of the administration to take custody of that individual so we can obtain information that is vital to the safety and security of the American people.

John O. Brennan

#3. I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the assembled armies of Europe

Mary, Queen Of Scots

#4. The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

George Inness

#5. The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

George Inness

#6. He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. You must suggest to me reality
you can never show me reality.

George Inness

#8. The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.

George Inness

#9. An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.

Richard Whately

#10. The true end of Art is not to imitate a fixed material condition, but to represent a living motion,

George Inness