Rothenstein Quotes & Sayings

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt. — Danny Trejo

(Passion always looks like sacrifice to people who are not in love.) — Kris Vallotton

Your persistence is your belief in yourself. — Brian Tracy

Perfection is an admirable thing to strive for. But so is knowing when to stop. — Richelle Mead

Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation ... — William Rothenstein

How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike. — William Rothenstein

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful. — Maureen Dowd

If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death Perhaps the world can teach us as when everything seems dead but later proves to be alive. — Pablo Neruda

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein