Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color. Painting without drawing is just 'coloriness,' color excitement. To think of color for color's sake is like thinking of sound for sound's sake. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
Immortal is the moment when I engendered the recurrence. For the sake of this moment I bear the recurrence.
Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.
Something must always remain that eludes us. . . For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms. . . As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues. . . And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman.
I know there are some labels that put out music for art's sake, but I don't know which ones.
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously ceases to be honesty.
I'm polite. I guess that's the dichotomy within me. I don't like to piss people off just for the sake of pissing them off. I pick my battles.
I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.
War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.
The fetters of tyranny were not stricken from America for the sake of Americans alone.
Knowledge for the sake of knowledge! Truth for truth's sake! This is inhuman.
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
Of alle the floures in the mede, Than love I most these floures whyte and rede, Swiche as men callen daysies in our toun. . . . . Til that myn herte dye. . . . . That wel by reson men hit calle may The 'dayesye' or elles the 'ye of day,' The emperice and flour of floures alle. I pray to god that faire mot she falle, And alle that loven floures, for hir sake!
The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling. . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.