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• A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

  G. E. Moore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Always, His, Great, Artist, Before, Behind

• Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

  Louis Kahn

  Topics in College, Past, Soul

  Tags in Urgent, Architecture, Expressive, Reassure, Student, Him, Does, His, Walk, Help, Every, Time, Really, Piece, Mind, Belong

• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

  Novalis

  Topics in Work

  Tags in His, Artist, Belong

• I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.

  André Breton

  Topics in Dream, Memory

  Tags in Amazed, Credence, Events, Lends, Observer, Occurring, Always, Than, His, Plaything, Waking, Above, Ordinary, More, Much, Been, Way, Those, Importance, Man, Attach

• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Amy Lowell

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Reactions, Express, World, His, Himself, Record, Personality, Man, Lives, Desire

• Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

  Ronald Reagan

  Topics in Job

  Tags in His, Loses, Recession, Your, Neighbor, Lose, Depression

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Topics in Dream, Life, Success

  Tags in Endeavors, Confidently, Meet, His, Direction, Unexpected, Which, Will, Hours, Live, Common, Advance

• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Merely, His, Finishes, Artist, Really, Never, Abandon

• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Sam Walton

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Chairman, Boss, His, Only, Down, Else, Everybody, Fire, Simply, Spending, Somewhere, Company, Customer

• As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

  Margaret Mead

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Invoking, Introspective, Him, Any, Adult, His, Own, Parents, Teachers, Thinks, Become, Understand, Before, Old, Long, Lost

• We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

  Joseph Roux

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Holds, Immense, Impotence, Widower, Here, His, Him, Call, Friend, Orphan, Every, Unhappiness, Silent, Losing, Wife, Person, Man, Language, Known, Lost

• The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Doorstep, Where, World, His, Limitless, Away, Anywhere, Artist, Far, Feet, Few, Found, Lives

• The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Pitiful, Among, Into, His, Gold, Most, Turns, Silver, Men

• A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Hidden, Child | Circumstance, Concerned, Cough, Helps, Homework, Kindly, Inner, Than, Grasp, His, Wall, World, Fact, Same, Too, More, Feeling, Never, Well, Some, Cooks

• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

  Henry Ford

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Constructive, Bound, How, His, Give, Dollar, See, Much, Use, Will, Skill, Succeed, Instead, Imagination, Man, Little

• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  Albert Camus

  Topics in Age, Youth

  Tags in His, Responsible, After, Alas, Certain, Every, Face, Man

• Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

  Henry Kissinger

  Topics in Art, Joy

  Tags in His, Expression, Labor, Man

• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in His, Measure, Bathroom, Tax, Income, Zero, Best, Return, Adjust, Scale, Man

• Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sins, Breakfast, She, Her, His, Woman, Once, Must, Forgiven, Man

• A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in His, Choirs, Successive, Friends, Growth, Seen, Man