Quotes 121 till 140 of 168.
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.
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The problem of meaning today is the problem of how the diverse and superficially self-contradictory experiences of men can be put into a consistent picture that will provide contemporary man with a convincing basis from which to live and to act.
Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966) -
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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The scientific perspective of the world, especially the living world, inexorably impresses on us a dynamic picture of the world of entities and structures involved in continuous and incessant change and in process without ceasing.
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The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics.
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The whole idea is to enable you to see mentally the picture at all hours of the day.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
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There are certain times I don't want my picture taken. If my wife's stepping out of a car and it looks like it's going to come out an indecent picture, don't I have a right to object?
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
There is no unique picture of reality.
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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
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This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.
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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
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Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
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Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
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