"I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!"

-- Rumi

#Beauty Quotes #Design Quotes #Moments Quotes

“The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything”
“You donâ€™t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad â€¦ itâ€™s incumbent upon you, if youâ€™re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing”
“Today, Iraq is an immediate danger to our nation. This time, we cannot wait. We cannot wait for Saddam Hussein to take a devastating action or to transfer a weapon of mass destruction to someone else who will. After September 11th, it is simply no longer an option to sit back and contemplate an enemy - one with a stated intent to harm us, a track record and the means, and just wait for him to strike in order to protect ourselves.”
“I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.”
“You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.”
“Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.”
“Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.”
“I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...”

Source : Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.66, Yale University Press

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