"The word "forbearance" is the key to a happy home."
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Category: Happiness
"Out of the deep depths of misfortune comes bliss."
"Your children and grandchildren will have their share of happiness; there's no need to work a like a horse for them."
"Doing good is the greatest happiness."
"Extreme happiness begets tragedy."
"Happiness does not notice the passing of time."
"To be content is to be happy."
"In the midst of happiness, one may not appreciate what happiness is."
"After bitterness comes the sweet."
"The houses are from five to seven feet high, and all built upon one arbitrary plan--the ungraceful form of a dry-goods box. The sides are daubed with a smooth white plaster, and tastefully frescoed aloft and alow with disks of camel-dung placed there to dry. This gives the edifice the romantic appearance of having been riddled with cannon-balls, and imparts to it a very pleasing effect. When the artist has arranged his materials with an eye to just proportion--the small and the large flakes in alternate rows, and separated by carefully-considered intervals--I know of nothing more cheerful to look upon than a spirited Syrian fresco. Nothing in this world has such a charm for me as to stand and gaze for hours and hours upon the inspired works of these old masters."
Category: Art
"We don't know any more about pictures than a kangaroo does about metaphysics.... To us, the great uncultivated, it is the last thing in the world to call a picture. Brown said it looked like an old fire- board."
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist.... We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
"... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic."
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."
"I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true."
"An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along."
"The poet, the dramatist, the novelist are free to exercise their imagination as widely as they choose. But the historian may not be allowed so long a tether. He must fulfill his function as creative artist only within very rigid limits. He cannot invent what went on in the mind of St. Thomas of Canterbury. The poet can. He cannot suppress inconvenient minor characters and invent others who more significantly underline the significance of his theme. The novelist can. The dramatist can. The historian, as Sir Phillip Sydney has said, "is captive to the truth of a foolish world." Not only is he captive to the truth of a foolish world, but he is captive to a truth he can never fully discover, and yet he is forbidden by his conscience and his training from inventing it."
"Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct ... and to refrain from destruction."
"Yes, madam, Nature is creeping up."
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
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