Fabritius Quotes & Sayings

They give me the evil eye every Sunday. In Church. It's like they expect the altar to melt or a million locusts to fly out of my butt. — Kirsten Miller

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets. — Hubert H. Humphrey

I'm a songwriter, that's what I love. — Berry Gordy

May the light of your love have enough power to extinguish all the darkness from the world. — Debasish Mridha

And, in this staunch little portrait, it's hard not to see the human in the finch. Dignified, vulnerable. One prisoner looking at another. But who knows what Fabritius intended? There's not enough of his work left to even make a guess. The bird looks out at us. It's not idealized or humanized. It's very much a bird. Watchful, resigned. There's no moral or story. There's no resolution. There's only a double abyss: between painter and imprisoned bird; between the record he left of the bird and our experience of it, centuries later. — Donna Tartt

effective leadership isn't an art. It's a science. — Friederike Fabritius

Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to. — Philip Guston

And if what they say is true
if every great painting is really a self-portrait
what, if anything, is Fabritius saying about himself? — Donna Tartt

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC)
The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all ... — Virgil

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself. — Khalil Gibran

God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone. — A.B. Simpson

A joyous person abounds with energy and feels buoyant, because he or she is running a higher frequency current of energy through his or her system. — Gary Zukav