Books Quote by Paul Bourget Download Open image “Ideas are to literature what light is to painting.” — Paul Bourget ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Ideas Light Literature Painting
Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Ideally I would like the work to be a hybrid between painting and photography. — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
You know, why does a painter paint? You need to communicate, you need to challenge preconceived ideas. — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
I have a completely romantic idea about making paintings, I guess. — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which… — George Frederic Watts Copy Share Image
There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we have lived. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
It's never too late to think big. Widen your horizons. Look beyond your normal limits. See things in a larger picture. Consider the next… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving - in the complex and modern sense… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
“Even after making up one's mind to the sacrifices I had decided upon, there is always left a trace of envy for those who… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
“Il faut vivre comme on pense, sans quoi l'on finira par penser comme on a vécu.” — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
