Joseph Cornell famous quotes

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Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Children #Eye #Looks
Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Significance
Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planetsâ€”a connotation of moon and tidesâ€”the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Moon #Clouds #Sea
Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Joy #Sublime #Venture
Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Childhood #Shadow #Elements
My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Boxes
Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.
-- Joseph Cornell

#Children #Remember #Direct

The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.
I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.

Joseph Cornell famous quotes

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