“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.” ShouldKindArtEyeEmotionCallingConcernEarsHarmonyIndependentDevotionPityArtisticAppealsTrapsArrangementsStand AloneConfoundingPity Love Book:Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)
“A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate his precepts to the capacity of his pupil.” IfsWayShouldSometimesAbleYoungTeachingTasteCapacityEarsHorseLeavingOpeningPaceInstructionPupilsPouringAccommodateLadTutor Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.” ShouldEarsTongueFormerLatterGood WillSlander Author:Plautus
“A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.” MenShouldMindRunningRaceEarsTerror Book:Virginibus Puerisque Source: Virginibus Puerisque