Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life. — Karen X. Tulchinsky Copy Share Image
If I'm ever working on a set and anyone talks about a master shot, I say there is no master shot. Before… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God. — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating… — Minor White Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Apparently, everyone is most scared of the psychological tests. I didn't know how I'd fare. What I've found out is I may… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned… — Paul Spencer Sochaczewski Copy Share Image
Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image