Sculpture And Ceramics Quotes & Sayings

How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens? he asked himself. Thinking about it and taking as his model Grandfather, an artist in religion who had given to its study the devotion and the hours of discipline that a violinist devotes to his instrument, he thought that their perception was born of the faculty of wonder, deepening to meditation and to penetrating sight and so strong that it could last out a lifetime. Grandfather wondered, all day and every day, at the wisdom of God and the beauty of the world, and Ferranti had wondered at the waste and pain and frustration of life. — Elizabeth Goudge

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. — Alice Cooper

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. — James Wyatt

The upshot is a hermeneutics of suspicion; if someone tells you that he or she has converted to unbelief because of science, don't believe them. Because what's usually captured the person is not scientific evidence per se, but the form of science: "Even where the conclusions of science seem to be doing the work of conversion, it is very often not the detailed findings so much as the form" (p. 362). Indeed, "the appeal of scientific materialism is not so much the cogency of its detailed findings as that of the underlying epistemological stance, and that for ethical reasons. It is seen as the stance of maturity, of courage, of manliness, over against childish fears and sentimentality" (p. 365). — James K.A. Smith

I live in New York City, and I'm making huge action movies. The people that make huge action movies live in L.A., and they're surrounded by other people who make huge action movies. I'm surrounded by people making documentaries! — Doug Liman

It's important for people to know that I'm still focused on football ... I'm handling my business to get ready for the next season. — Colin Kaepernick

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his. — Benjamin Franklin

There are two things essential if you want to enhance your Jedi self-confidence:
1/ belief that it is possible
2/ that self-help is the best help — Stephen Richards

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols. — Theodore Parker

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up. — Amanda Schull

'Tomorrowland' is very much the dream role for me. I've always wanted to do a movie like this. Movies like this aren't made anymore, and it's so cool that I get to be a part of it. I get to do something new and crazy every day, and my character goes through so many different things. I get to do all of it. It's awesome. — Britt Robertson

I'll never give up being into trying to change the world. — Genesis P-Orridge

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know? — Christian Scott

why, it beats so i can love you. — Ronlyn Domingue

If your heart is dead, know that the One who can give life to the dead body, can give life to your dead heart. — Yasmin