“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”
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“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
“The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.”
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.”
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”
“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.”
“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”
“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.”
“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”
“It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I'm still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.”
“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'”
“If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.”
“My work and my family are very important to me.”
“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”
“With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.”
“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”
“I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.”
“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”