T Quotes
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“There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.”
Source: Leon Battista Alberti O Painting
“There is no art without a poetic aim.”
“There is no art without an artist”
Source: The Recluse of Santa Fe
“There is no art without contemplation.”
“There is no art without Eros.”
Source: Sketchbook 1946-1949
“There is no art without intention.”
“There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium!”
Source: Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition
“There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! The highest degree of delirium! Plunged in burning dementia! Art is the most enrapturing orgy within man's reach.. Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.”
Source: Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition
“There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful.”
“There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.”
Source: The Spiritual Maxims of Saint Francis de Sales
“there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.”
Source: A Short History Of Myth
“There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.”
“There is no association richer than the companionship of husband and wife.”
“There is no assurance in life.
It is only God that gives assurance.”
“There is no assurance like the word of God.”
“There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.”
“There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.”
“There is no authentic goal you can set for yourself that can't be reached, no dream that can't be realized. It's just a matter of learning HOW to achieve what you want.”
Source: Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams
“There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history.”
Source: Freedom and Destiny
“There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.”
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”
“There is no authority but yourself.”
Source: Black Science Vol. 1
“There is no authority like action.”
“There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.”
Source: The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
“There is no average reason for a person getting involved in racing.”
“There is no avoidance in delay.”
Source: The House of Atreus
“There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.”
“There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.”
“There is no ‘back’ for me. My home is gone.”
“What do you mean ‘gone’?”
“Changed. Time makes us all homeless —eventually.”
Source: The One Who Eats Monsters
“There is no back label with a story on a beer can.”
“There is no bad artist, when it comes to art. It is either you don't understand the artist work or you can't relate to it. Art is like beauty. It is in the eyes or ears of the beholder. There is more to it ,than what you hear or see.”
“There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.”
“There is no bad in good.”
“There is no bad light. There is spectacular light and difficult light. It's up to you to use the light you have.”
Source: Light, Gesture, and Color
“There is no bad.. nor good.. there just is.. and that is the present moment. How does that look.. depends on where you are along the journey.. Blink.. and the perception can change.”
“There is no bad weather, just soft runners.”
“There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.”
“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
“There is no balance, all or nothing.”
“There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.”
Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)
“There is no balm of Gilead, No salve, no soothing ointment To stay the pain of one who's had In love a disappointment-- Unless it be that healing lotion Of fixing on a new devotion.”
“There is no bandit so powerful as Nature.
The interaction of the positive and the negative principles, which produces the visible universe.
In the whole universe there is no escape from it.”
“There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.”
“There is no basis for the ardent hopes and positive statements made as to the safe and successful use of the dirigible balloon or flying machine, or both, for commercial transportation or as weapons of war.”
“There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).”
“There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“There is no beast more cruel than man.”
Source: Savva: The Life of Man; Two Plays
“There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.”
Source: Complete Plays of Aristophanes
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”
Source: The Conduct of Life