Roger Fry Quotes

#1. Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip ... and to my chin.

E. M. Forster

#2. I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Alistair Cooke

#3. Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

Sandra Bartky

#4. The single despot stands out in the face of all men, and says: I am the State: My will is law: I am your master: I take the responsibility of my acts: The only arbiter I acknowledge is the sword: If any one denies my right, let him try conclusions with me.

Lysander Spooner

#5. I cannot imaging anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. Kindness is the touch of an angel's hand.

James Leonard Gordon

#7. The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.

Roger Fry

#8. Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory.

Orrin Woodward

#9. Roger was not flattered, because he did not recognize what was happening. Things that do not matter to him are invisible.

Priya Parmar

#10. First I have a think, and then I put a line around it.

Roger Fry

#11. No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.

Roger Fry

#12. A guy like me could take advantage of a girl like you. Better show me what you've got.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#13. We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.

Wynn Mercere

#14. You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)

Inigo Garcia Ureta

#15. J.S. Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Roger Fry

#16. When the incarnation of the Dakini marked by the dragon is found by her mirror, the chains of the dragon will melt from the land of snows. Prophecy of a Free Tibet

Daniel Prokop

#17. Art is significant deformity.

Roger Fry

#18. And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.

Thomas Cranmer

#19. The paradox of life lies exactly in this: its resources are finite, but it itself is endless. Such a contradictory state of affairs is feasible only because the resources accessible to life can be used over and over again.

I.I. Gitelson

#20. Each breath we take brings us to, and past, a crossroads in life, and there is no turning back.

Dan Burns

#21. I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

Don Henley

#22. This guy was making me tired. "Thanks for the afternoon's entertainment," I said. "I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.

John Swartzwelder

#23. I wait for his regret, his guilt, but it does not come. He is a man who always sees the good in things. And in his mind, love is always good.

Priya Parmar