The young mind is pliable and imitates, but in more advanced states grows rigid and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Look after everybody So that they are happy to see you. It is better to serve the devotee of god than to serve god himself.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better than no drugs at all.

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

Man's Heart serves as a transmitter and receiver from person to person and from servant to Glorious God.

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.