GREAT QUOTES OF REMBRANDT

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GREAT QUOTES OF REMBRANDT

**I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

**A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. But his faith is a faith that to him is real, and it is a faith, in my judgement, that sustained him through the hard times in his life.

**Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

**A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god. 

**Choose only one master – Nature. 

**Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

**For in these two paintings the greatest and most natural movement has been expressed, which is also the main reason why they have taken so long to execute.

**Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and ought to try and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can't do it. I just can't do it! And that is why I am just a little crazy.

**Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

**Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. A painting is not made to be sniffed.

GREAT QUOTES OF MICHELANGELO

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF MICHELANGELO

“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Genius is eternal patience. ” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” - Michelangelo

“Ancora Imparo

(Yet I am learning)” - Michelangelo

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” - Michelangelo

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti

“The greatest artist does not have any concept

Which a single piece of marble does not itself contain

Within its excess, though only

A hand that obeys the intellect can discover it.” - Michelangelo Buonarroti, 

GREAT QUOTES OF LEONARDO DA VINCI | GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS ARTISTS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF FAMOUS ARTISTS
Great quotes of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble...” - Leonardo da Vinci

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.” - Leonardo da Vinci

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” - Leonardo da Vinci

GREAT QUOTES OF DYLAN THOMAS

GREAT QUOTES OF DYLAN THOMAS

“Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” - Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” - Dylan Thomas

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” -  Dylan Thomas

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.” - Dylan Thomas

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.” - Dylan Thomas

“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.” - Dylan Thomas

“I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake” - Dylan Thomas

“I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.” - Dylan Thomas

“I think, that if I touched the earth,

It would crumble;

It is so sad and beautiful,

So tremulously like a dream.” - Dylan Thomas

“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.” - Dylan Thomas

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.” - Dylan Thomas

GREAT QUOTES OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“You're something between a dream and a miracle.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Earth's crammed with heaven...

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God,

But only he who sees takes off his shoes;

The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long. ” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Love me sweet

With all thou art

Feeling, thinking, seeing;

Love me in the Lightest part,

Love me in full Being.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

GREAT QUOTES OF T S ELIOT

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF T S ELIOT

“For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.” - T.S. Eliot

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” - T.S. Eliot

“This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.” - T.S. Eliot

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” - T.S. Eliot

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.”

― T. S. Eliot

“Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” - T.S. Eliot

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” - T.S. Eliot

“Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.” - T.S. Eliot

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.” - T.S. Eliot

“April is the cruelest month, breeding

lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

memory and desire, stirring

dull roots with spring rain.” - T.S. Eliot

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN KEATS

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GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN KEATS

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter” - John Keats

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” - John Keats

“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.” - John Keats

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” - John Keats

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.” - John Keats

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” - John Keats

“Touch has a memory.” - John Keats

“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.” - John Keats

“Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.” - John Keats

“I have been astonished that men could die martyrs
for their religion-
I have shuddered at it,
I shudder no more.
I could be martyred for my religion.
Love is my religion
and I could die for that.
I could die for you.
My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.” - John Keats