Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment - divested of affectation and free from all pretense.

Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity.

Art, like love, excludes all competition and absorbs the man.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Ancient art was the tyrant of Egypt, the mistress of Greece and the servant of Rome.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

The great mercy of God's grace is forgiveness for all sins.

Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.

I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

I'm surprised John Lewis didn't invoke the suppression of voting rights in this election [2016]. I still think it's one of the most underreported stories.

What's going on outside? It was really nice - all the fans out there with big signs.

I realize now that I have made some mistakes. I am willing to accept the consequences of those actions.