Phaidon Art Books Quotes

#1. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

Criss Jami

#2. I would love to do more private concerts.

Renee Fleming

#3. There has been nothing in heaven or on earth which has not witnessed that Jesus Christ is God, Lord and Master, and the great Ambassador of the Father sent here below to accomplish the salvation of mankind. All

John Calvin

#4. A foul-mouthed oaf, a drunken laborer lying in a drain, a beaten wife with blackened eyes and torn clothes, cannot be made romantic to a child who sees how other children suffer from bad-tempered parents, from drunken fathers to termagant mothers.

Joyce Cary

#5. If you are a hope for someone, that's very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that's excellent!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships.

Sally Kohn

#7. She snorts. "Does that make you my prince?" "Damn straight.

Elle Kennedy

#8. Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?

Melina Marchetta

#9. We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

Blaise Pascal

#10. Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.

Joshua Ferris