It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth goodness and beauty are one. In the morning when they commit their discovery to paper when others read it written there it looks wholly ridiculous.
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them with others.
Mankind's true moral test its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
It is very important to generate a good attitude a good heart as much as possible. From this happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.
Art is not what you see but what you make others see.
Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
What I've discovered is that in art as in music there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Be true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
Even in literature and art no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will nine times out of ten become original without ever having noticed it.
When I make art I think about its ability to connect with others to bring them into the process.
The writer when he is also an artist is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Without freedom no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself and dies of all others.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf if it's for others deserving of your anger your empathy.
The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.
My dear brothers take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to become angry for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.