"The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul."

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Source : The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

Florence Earle Coates

#Art Quotes #Mean Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Linear thinking is patriarchal.”
“Johnny Sain don't say much, but that don't matter much, because when you're out there on the mound, you got nobody to talk to.”
“The only thing even in this world is the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.”
“Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.”
“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.”

Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers
“The sun came out, And the snowman cried. His tears ran down on every side. His tears ran down Till the spot was cleared. He cried so hard That he disappeared.”
“I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.”
“The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity”

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