Petracchi Simplified Quotes & Sayings

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility ... — Flannery O'Connor

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions. — Julian Schnabel

That's the problem with fairy tales, they change with the telling. — Melinda Salisbury

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have. — William Shakespeare

I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Listen . Keep silent .
You are not gods mouthpiece.
Try to be an ear. — Rumi

But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists. — Colin Wilson

If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the apple when Eve bit like the original worm in it, splitting it in half and sundering everything which was once one into a pair of opposites, so the world is Noah's ark on the sea of eternity containing all the endless pairs of things, irreconcilable and inseparable, and heat will always long for cold and the back for the front and smiles for tears and mutt for jeff and no for yes with the most unutterable nostalgia there is. — Diane Arbus

A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities ... — Franklin Carmichael

I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man. — Michael J. Fox

I'm always skeptical about representations of trans people, especially when trans people are not making the work. — Laverne Cox

I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see. — Nicolas Winding Refn

A new report says that last year Colorado collected $44 million in marijuana taxes. Unfortunately, they can't remember where they put it. — Conan O'Brien

It seems like people my age are over-protected today, even to the point where a lot of parents refuse to put their kids in the position to make important decisions, to aspire to great things, because they don't want to put them in a position to fail. — Abby Sunderland