I Quotes
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“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.”
Source: Jean-Christophe
“It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.”
Source: The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews
“It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness - just in case they, and not beauty, are the real things of value.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“It is the artist's responsibility to be the oracle, to abstract where you are - that is our responsibility - we're not there to look glamorous. We're there to tune into the frequency of the Earth and the connective tissues of those things that we are responding to - language, colour, costume, literature, poetry, cuisine, perfume - these are the things that make up the desire to throw paint on a canvas, these are the things that create the excitement for building a new language!”
“It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.”
“It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.”
Source: Findings
“It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.”
Source: Serenissima
“It is the assumption of this book that there is a typical human nature. It is the aim of this book to seek it. Just like a surgeon, a psychiatrist can make all sorts of basic assumptions when a patient lies down upon the couch. He can assume that the patient knows what it means to love, to envy, to trust, to think, to speak, to fear, to smile, to bargain, to covet, to dream, to remember, to sing, to quarrel, to lie. The 'smile' of a baboon is a threat; the smile of a man is a sign of pleasure: it is human nature, the world over.”
“It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.”
Source: With the Smell of the Sheep: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests, Bishops, and Other Shephards
“It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude.”
“It is the aversion to fear that kills the greatest of dreams. And until the aversion to the death of our dreams outpaces the fears that kill them, what we could achieve will only be a dream.”
“It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.”
Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms
“It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.”
Source: THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING
“It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.”
“It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.”
Source: Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
“It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the distractions of color and mass. Yet it is an old ambition to make drawing and painting one.”
Source: The drawings of Philip Guston
“It is the basic evasion of the essential which is the problem of man.”
Source: Wilhelm Reich Biographical Material: History of the Discovery of the Life Energy, the Emotional Plague of Mankind. Documentary Volume
“It is the basic principle of Marxism that any attempt to reconcile capital and labor so that they both co-operate in peace and prosperity is a betrayal of communism.”
“It is the basic principle of spiritual life that we learn the deepest things in unknown territory. Often it is when we feel most confused inwardly and are in the midst of our greatest difficulties that something new will open. We awaken most easily to the mystery of life through our weakest side. The areas of our greatest strength, where we are the most competent and clearest, tend to keep us away from the mystery.”
“It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and protects.”
Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
“It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.”
Source: Seek That Which Is Above: Meditations Through the Year
“It is the beautiful things that you behold that makes life worth living.”
Source: Life's Impressions
“It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.”
“It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive sense, is the reason we have civilization.”
“It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.”
“It is the beginning of the end.
[Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]”
“It is the beginning of the year of our Lord 1963.
I see a young Negro boy. He is sitting on a stoop in front of a vermin-infested apartment house in Harlem. The stench of garbage is in the halls. The drunks, the jobless, the junkies are shadow figures of his everyday world. The boy goes to a school attended mostly by Negro students with a scattering of Puerto Ricans. His father is one of the jobless. His mother is a sleep-in domestic, working for a family on Long Island.
I see a young Negro girl. She is sitting on the stoop of a rickety wooden one-family house in Birmingham. Some visitors would call it a shack. It needs paint badly and the patched-up roof appears in danger of caving in. Half a dozen small children, in various stages of undress, are scampering about the house. The girl is forced to play the role of their mother. She can no longer attend the all-Negro school in her neighborhood because her mother died only recently after a car accident. Neighbors say if the ambulance hadn't come so late to take her to the all-Negro hospital the mother might still be alive. The girl's father is a porter in a downtown department store. He will always be a porter, for there are no promotions for the Negro in this store, where every counter serves him except the one that sells hot dogs and orange juice.
This boy and this girl, separated by stretching miles, are wondering: Why does misery constantly haunt the Negro? In some distant past, had their forebears done some tragic injury to the nation, and was the curse of punishment upon the black race? Had they shirked in their duty as patriots, betrayed their country, denied their national birthright? Had they refused to defend their land against a foreign foe?”
Source: Why We Can't Wait
“It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.”
Source: All the Little Live Things
“It is the belief and not the god that counts.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.”
“It is the belief that we instill in them that makes them work round the clock to ensure it comes true.”
Source: Solemn Tales of Human Hearts
“It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!”
“It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.”
“It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”
“It is the best part of the night. The classic interactive lines are 'Where are you from? What do you do for a living?' I almost always get something interesting.”
“It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.”
Source: The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence
“It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had in the being of God without thinking of him with reverence and delight? A God forgotten is as good as no God to us.”
“It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.”
Source: The Recognitions: A Novel
“It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.”
Source: A dance autobiography
“It is the bold man who every time does best, at home or abroad.”
Source: The illustrated Odyssey
“It is the bourgeoisie which has turned religion into an opium of the people by preaching a God, lord of the heavens only, while taking possession of the earth for itself.”
“It is the brain that gets drunk and not the body itself.”
“It is the brain, not the heart or lungs, that is the critical organ.”
“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”
“It is the brave individual who will refuse to elevate themselves at the expense of others.”
“It is the brave soul who refuses to reject who they are in favor of the lesser things that they are not.”
“It is the bravery of the lion that enables you the lion’s share of the power. More important than all, know this: bravery begets victory.”
Source: The Serpent's Son
“It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.”
“it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.”
“It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.”