"Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul."

-- Robert Genn

#Art Quotes #Humility Quotes #Pride Quotes

“People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.”

Source : "The Last Wish". Book by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993.
“There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.”
“My mother ... had a very deep inner spirituality that allowed her to rebuild her life. It's extraordinary that she had such a strong sense of self and such a commitment to the future and such a strong creative sense that she could build new worlds for herself and for us out of the total devastation in her life.”
“I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.”
“A painting is not made to be sniffed.”

Source : "The Rise of the Cult of Rembrandt: Reinventing an Old Master in Nineteenth-Century France". Book by Alison MacQueen, 2003.
“What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.”

Source : Song: Never as Good as the First Time, Album: Promise
“Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.”

Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.234, tredition
“I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.”

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