Romare Beardon Famous Quotes
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
Romare Beardon Quotations
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Alfred North Whitehead
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The result justifies the deed.
Ovid
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde
"If an eye never falls asleep, All dreams will by themselves cease If the mind retains its absoluteness, The ten thousand things are of one suchness."
SengT San
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."
Joseph Addison
"Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two."
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Hector Hugh Munro