The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAny artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
Matthew McConaugheyAlas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David ThoreauI do have motivation. A lot of motivation.
LeBron JamesIf a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
Oscar WildeThe world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George EliotI learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.
Kevin HartEach morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador DaliThere is no great genius without some touch of madness.
AristotleBeauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John RuskinAstronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
PlatoThe method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
Ralph Waldo EmersonA lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.
Mr. TWhen you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.
Dolores HuertaI am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.
Bob DylanWe don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard ShawBeing a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will RogersWere I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘
Edgar Allan PoeMy humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
Desmond TutuWe shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston ChurchillThe death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan PoeIndependence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard ShawThe sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.
Alexander HamiltonFires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James BaldwinThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand RussellYou shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
Alexander the GreatI think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from.
Bad BunnyMy entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.
Narendra ModiThe beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia WoolfI suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.
John MuirDelicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George EliotHappy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.
Alexander PopeI modelled my looks on the town tramp.
Dolly PartonThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne FrankAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaImagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinHeaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Alexander the GreatLife is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
Ronald ReaganSusceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry AdamsAll our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt DisneyInnovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
Joe BidenHow inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. ClarkeStories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
Paul AusterWe never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiTo create something you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying ‚Hi‘ and having a conversation about life. I love people.
Lady GagaIf, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. MenckenEvery once in a while, I get mad. ‚The Lorax‘ came out of my being angry. The ecology books I’d read were dull… In ‚The Lorax,‘ I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might.
Dr. SeussAnd the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
J. K. RowlingLet a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace ThackerayDuring my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
John MuirYou’re beautiful, like a May fly.
Ernest HemingwayLife must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor RooseveltThe clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John MuirLove is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
John LennonVan Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.
Wayne DyerOur Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Martin LutherService to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad AliThis is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillIf you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Kurt Vonnegut