"â€™The Art of the Brickâ€™ exhibition is accessible because it engages the child in all of us while simultaneously illuminating sophisticated and complex concepts. Everyone can relate to the medium since it is a toy that many children have at home. But my goal with this exhibition when it first debuted in 2007 was to elevate this simple plaything to a place it has never been before."

-- Nathan Sawaya

#Art Quotes #Children Quotes #Home Quotes

“Forever and ever, kid, until you're sick and tired of seeing me.”
“Enthusiasm is a virtue rarely to be met with in seasons of calm and unruffled prosperity. Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. The terrors of persecution only serve to quicken the energy of its purposes. It swells in proud integrity, and, great in the purity of its cause, it can scatter defiance amidst hosts of enemies.”
“I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..”
“Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul.”
“Many are needed to plant and water what has been planted now that the faith has spread so far and there are so many people... No matter who plants or waters, God gives no harvest unless what is planted is the faith of Peter and unless he agrees to his teachings.”
“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.”

Source : "Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture" by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, 1862.
“A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.”

Source : William Walker Atkinson (2016). “Practicing mental influence”, p.40, William Walker Atkinson
“We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.”

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