Admiring Quotes - Page 7

• All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

  Angela Carter

  Artist, Self, Mad

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• Lovers should not separate from each other after making love without admiring each other, without being conquered as well as conquering, so that no feeling of satiation or desolation arises nor the horrid feeling of misusing or having been misused.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Feelings, Admiration

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.52, Om Books International

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• How can you learn more? By admiring what you've done right? Or by studying what you've done wrong?

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Done, Study

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• Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time.

  Mary Elizabeth Clark

  Long, People, Way

  Mary Elizabeth Clark, Margery Closey Quigley (1939). “Etiquette Every Child Should Know”

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• All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Taste

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us into the realms of mystery... we must be pure and simple like children, capable of admiring, being astonished, of marveling, and being enchanted by the divine gestures of love and closeness we witness.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Children, Inspiration

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• Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Art, Freedom

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.37, Princeton University Press

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