applause

Art is much less important than life but what a poor life without it.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing I realize how extraordinary it is sheer miracle.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see - it is rather a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

When you read and understand a poem comprehending its rich and formal meanings then you master chaos a little.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life and from their hands it comes in fair articulate forms to bless the world.

The artist is the confidant of nature flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse our gestures our digestive tracts the lunar and seasonal cycles.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

The object of art is to give life a shape.