Orbit Laferney Quotes & Sayings

It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which has no subject, which means absolutely nothing from the logical point of view ... should speak so strongly in us ... that we feel compelled to paint ... — Giorgio De Chirico

The outer storm ceases the moment the inner storm ends, for they are the same storm. — Vernon Howard

I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is. — Mason Cooley

In every generation there have been matters which the general public is irresistibly tempted to ignore, partly through actual lack of information, but far more through indolence, or even through active dislike of inconvenient facts. In such cases, Parliament and Press are often under the subtlest temptations of all, and bear the heaviest guilt for their neglect of the common weal. In times of dangerous self-complacency, a nuisance may be most useful: indeed, it may become useful in proportion to its crying insistence. — George G. Coulton

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while. — Georges Danton

Convert a soul without the Spirit of' God! Why, you cannot even make a fly, much less create a new heart and a right spirit. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon