I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.
Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.
I don't have to work on it. I'm naturally a writer. The rapping and writing, they can go hand-in-hand - but rapping is an art that you have to practice and master, so I worked at it for a long time.
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that strength of mind and force of character are the supreme rulers of human affairs.
Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
Question for your life: If you could change War’s name, do you think you’d change its nature?
I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth
Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.
The word 'weird' is never spoken or thought of by the Fey, as to them there is nothing very strange when you take it as it is.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.