Fine Quotes - Page 29

• Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge.

  Rollo May

  Self, Order, Vision

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.80, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

  Stan Smith

  Ideas, Lines, Description

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• He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

  Max Muller

  Exercise, Faults, Quiet

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.39, Routledge

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• It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

  Ken Livingstone

  Art, People, Criticism

  "Art attack - mayor and sculptor in war of words over Mandela statue", www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2005.

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• If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.

  Mike DeWine

  Balance, Trying, President

  "Could Clinton escape censure, too?". www.cnn.com. December 31, 1998.

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• When Picasso paints as a cubist, putting one tone next to another, the arrangement of planes is fine and the results very storng. But those who imitate him achieve nothing worthwhile.

  Aristide Maillol

  Next, Tone, Imitation

  "Artists on Art, from the 14 to 20 Centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, p. 407, 1972.

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• Financial firms are sending their back-office jobs overseas. But what do fine artists do? They create something new, unexpected, and delightful that changes the world. MFA abilities are harder to outsource and more important in an abundant world.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Jobs, Artist, Office

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• I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.

  Cindy Sherman

  Thinking, Kind, Exploration

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• Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Feelings, Sometimes

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• As long as we keep our fundamentals strong...the dollar (and) U.S. borrowing costs will do just fine.

  Lawrence Summers

  Strong, Long, Dollars

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• I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, Dirty, Sleep

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• It's somewhat of a contradiction, .. I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes.

  David Bergen

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

  Frederick Sommer

  Art, Arbitrary, Chance

  Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

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• We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

  Charles Webster Hawthorne

  Teaching, Poet, Teach

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• Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

  Norman Rockwell

  Art, Differences, People

  Norman Rockwell (1994). “Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces”, Outlet

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• The biggest danger in sailing is not the open ocean. It's hitting things. So if I have a thousand miles between me and land, a storm doesn't really upset me. If the boat's set up right, you get beat up a little bit, but the boat's going to handle it fine.

  John Moffitt

  Ocean, Land, Upset

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• Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.

  John Wright

  Philosophy, Offering, Church Music

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• There's a fine line between heartbreak and love. It's a compliment when someone tells me my music put them in a place when where they were almost in tears.

  Chris Botti

  Tears, And Love, Lines

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• An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Self, Discipline

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Growth, Crafts

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Doors, Ivory Tower, Long

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• Many a fine style has evolved from a decent handicap.

  Robert Genn

  Style, Handicaps, Decent

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• While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Pride, Vanity

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• No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

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• A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.

  Saint Basil

  Abortion, Fetus, Murder

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