A.G. Phillips Quotes
Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're not alone, 'cause I'm gonna make this place your home.
If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.
It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.
Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge, may appraise them conveniently.
A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.
There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.
Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.
Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.
The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.
Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.
Across the board, people are looking at the problem, but simply not changing anywhere near fast enough.
There's no secret about my ambition, I do not want to go into the House of Commons. My only real political interest is in London and if one day I'm in a position to run for mayor, then terrific.
Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.
A horizontal or vertical line lacks energy, compared with one that deviates from either. The difference between these graphic expressions is the difference between movement and repose.
The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.
