Unformable Quotes & Sayings

Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand could never give due perfection to the object or purpose which he had in his thoughts, or beheld in his imagination - since in his mind he frequently formed some difficult conception, so subtle and so wonderful that no hands, however excellent or able, could ever give it expression — Sherwin B. Nuland

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it. — Soren Kierkegaard

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. — Emily Carr

The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets. — J.M. Coetzee

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations. — Alexander Cockburn

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole. — Aristotle.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited. — Lana Del Rey

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. — Henry David Thoreau