Philippe Nericault Destouches famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

  • To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

  • Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

  • Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  • I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

  • Silence is a text easy to misread.

  • Allah makes the way to Jannah easy for him who treads the path in search of knowledge.

  • Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

  • For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

  • Be hard on yourself, easy on others.