"The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this."

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Source : "Wisdom and Wonder: Common Grace in Science and Art".

Abraham Kuyper

#Art Quotes #Motive Quotes #Notion Quotes

“Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious.”
“I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.
“War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.”

Source : Alfred Hermann Fried (1918*). “International Co-operation”
“I'm having a nice cold pint and waiting for this to blow over.”
“If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.”
“There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.977, Simon and Schuster
“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that precedes all the great events in the heart's history.”
“When I was 17, I had my first proper girlfriend, and on Valentine's Day, I painted a canvas of her, bought her a massage, put flowers on the stairs, and ran a bath.”

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