Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes they go through one stage of relaxation after another and every stage releases tension.
It is the fight alone that pleases us not the victory.
No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
The struggle alone pleases us not the victory.
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and its mother's age.
It's not catastrophes murders deaths diseases that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh and run up the steps of omnibuses.
When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list I had a small rush of 'I've made it!' But the next morning it occurred to me I didn't know what it was so I called my agent and asked what being a 'New York Times' bestselling author really meant. He informed me that I was now a thousand pound gorilla.