"If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them."

-- Cennino Cennini

#Artist Quotes #Practice Quotes #Imitation Quotes

“What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.”
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”

Source : 'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)
“If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.”
“Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.”
“Watch the speech. Really, watch: if this man gets his party's nomination, he's going to be the next president. By a landslide. And he is going to transform this country. If I were a Republican, I'd be very, very afraid. Oh wait, I am a Republican.”
“Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?”
“Behave in life as at a dinner party. Is anything brought around to you? Put out your hand and take your share with moderation. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Is it not yet come? Do not stretch your desire towards it, but wait till it reaches you. Do this with regard to children, to a spouse, to public post, to riches, and you will eventually be a worthy guest at the feast of life.”
“Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.”

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