"One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste."

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Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.467

Benjamin Haydon

#Men Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Looks Quotes

“A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.”
“Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.”

Source : Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Our reading can affect our imaginations in ways of which we are not consciously aware. It is quite common...to re-read something after a gap of many years and realize that it has been there all along, without any memory of where it was first encountered. But it may have been working away all the time.”
“And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.”

Source : Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.57, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.”
“[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.”
“And the time will come when you see weâ€™re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.”
“I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.”

Source : "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.

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