Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.
I can recommend nothing better. . . than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.
Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.
Every art, like our own, has in its composition fluctuating as well as fixed principles. It is an attentive inquiry into their difference that will enable us to determine how far we are influenced by custom and habit, and what is fixed in the nature of things.
My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold.
No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
There are three things, and it depends on the group that we're talking about, but there's history, there's culture, and then there's social networks. So, you know, historically black and white, they worship together until about the end of slavery, and people started moving out into separate churches. But it was because of discrimination and racism and such that blacks began to establish their own denominations and their own churches.