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“I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all kinds of unorthodox expression, all kinds of daring in the handling of materials, and I preferred to surround myself with this type of art than with the great collectors' pieces. I had always in my mind that I was collecting for learning.”

Mind Kind Art Found Pieces Greatness Expression Materials Type All Kinds Surround Daring Minors Great Art Imaginative Collecting Collectors Pompous Unorthodox

Author:Jacques Lipchitz

“My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can’t be reduced to a contest.”

Humans Art Would Be Form Spirit Answers Century Greatness Expression Musician Jazz Contests Human Spirit Jazz Music Jazz Musician

Author:Bennie Wallace

“The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.”

Knows Men Looks Spirit Greatness Painting Expression Paint Interiors

Author:Arnold Friberg

“Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.”

Age Night Wealth Silence Poverty Youth Greatness Expression Old Age Day And Night

Book:Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

“The essence of patriotism lies in a willingness to sacrifice for one's country, just as true greatness finds expression, not in blessings enjoyed, but in good bestowed.”

Country Lying Sacrifice Greatness Expression Blessing Essence Enjoyed Willingness True Greatness Willingness To Sacrifice

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.”

Men Mind Made Greatness Expression Great Men Teachable

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility.”

Heart Greatness Humility Expression Grateful Grateful Heart Humility And Gratitude

Author:James E. Faust

“The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and control he exerts over all that he touches.”

Wells Use Known Greatness Expression Discipline Mark Musical Singers Command Songwriters Drs Macs Aliases

Author:Jon Landau

“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?”

“Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.”

Values Belief Attitude Greatness Positive Thinking Expression Expectations Excellence Positive Attitude Keep A Positive Attitude Life Attitude Attitude And Life Beliefs And Values

Book:Universal Laws of Success

Source: Universal Laws of Success

“Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.”

Trying Heart Whole Secret Greatness Expression Unique Affair Significant Gestures Clue Being Different

Author:Joseph Chilton Pearce

“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.”

Wells Heart Prayer Virtue Greatness Humility Expression Development Foundation Grateful Well Being Contentment Grateful Heart Happiness Love Humility And Gratitude

Author:James E. Faust

“We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.”

Source: My Life In My Words

“All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.”

Art Soul Talking Greatness Expression Art Is

Book:The Stones of Venice: The fall

Source: The Stones of Venice: The fall