Beatrix Farrand famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

  • You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

  • Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.

  • We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.

  • The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

  • The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

  • Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

  • No life is well-rounded without the subtle inspiration of beauty.

  • But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

  • Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.