Function Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

“The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong tom or…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City,…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original…

— Paul Gauguin

“MY INVOLVEMENT IN CREATIVE WORK PURSUITS, IN PARTICULAR, SCULPTURE, IS A STATE OF MIND. IT IS A CONSCIOUSNESS, AN ACUTE AWARENESS OF MY EXISTENCE,…

— Chong Fah Cheong

I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of…

— William Wordsworth

“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing people were…

— Henry Miller

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

— Louise Bourgeois

“READER, You have here an honest book; it does at the outset forewarn You that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself…

— Michel de Montaigne

“From each art practiced in its time I derive a knowledge which compensates me in part for pleasures lost. I have supposed, and in…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Sometimes I have the feeling that you are not quite aware--and this honors you--of the historical greatness of your position, that you think too…

— Stefan Zweig

“Consider carefully the merest event: in the best of cases, the positive and negative elements that participate in it balance out; generally the negatives…

— Emil M. Cioran