"Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies."

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Source : Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7

Samuel Prout

#Simplicity Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Mind Quotes

“All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.10, University of Chicago Press
“Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'”

Source : "The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio". Book by William Bernstein, 2002.
“But I give best when I give from that deeper place; when I give simply, freely and generously, and sometimes for no particular reason. I give best when I give from my heart.”
“No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.”
“There's nothing wrong with letting the girls know that you're money and that you want to party.”
“If human beings pretend to be God, then forget about democracy. If they understand that no human being can represent God, then sure.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.”

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