Why should a craftsman not make use of all his tools if they will promote a greater communication and expressiveness? This is not to deny that beautiful things can be fashioned out of very modest means, but what possible objection can there be towards an artist trying to be more resourceful?
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Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is. LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something im... MICHAEL CISCO Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER And yet, what seems to be the most intimidating now is not an end in itself, but only a means to a g... AISHWARYA BHUTA Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL Be yourself, be who you can be. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There is a very delicate line between pornography and beauty. A naked woman is not necessarily porno... OSHO The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be gla... MURASAKI SHIKIBU It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? MAHATMA GANDHI Human is what he decides to be. ZAMAN ALI Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this m... LYNNE TRUSS In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA One should become so capable that even the closest instrument of mind can be put aside and can be pu... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'. Folks tend to confuse both. The right way i... UFUOMA APOKI The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit... GERMANY KENT This process can be set back ... but I do not think it can be undone. Because it is very much a one-... BERNARD PURCELL They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t ... NIKITA GILL ...I believe there is a legitimate aim of transcendence that is more modest and perhaps more realist... THOMAS NAGEL Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they wi... AHMED CHALABI The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr... PAULO FREIRE What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possibl... JULIAN BARNES When you hear men talking," said Cornelia, "all they ever do is speak ill of women. ... And I don't ... MODERATA FONTE I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. MARILYN MANSON We're not here to promote them, but if employees of downtown companies can use them to avoid lots of... BOB MCCORD To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise. DEBASISH MRIDHA To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... DEBASISH MRIDHA Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible... JAMES C. DOBSON I just believe that us as women— should not criticize nor pull down other women. And why? Because ... C. JOYBELL C. People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things... CHARLES DE GAULLE Hopefully it will affect somebody and will inspire something. I'm not trying to manipulate what peop... GIOVANNI RIBISI I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face. "... BRANDON SANDERSON A man can learn all of an opponent's weaknesses on that board,' said Gilt. 'Really?' said Vetin... TERRY PRATCHETT If an industrialist can sell his products anywhere in India and the world, why should a farmer not b... SHARAD PAWAR But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia... RICHARD SERRA Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. CRAIG GROESCHEL Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.&... WALTER GROPIUS There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they... OSCAR WILDE In general, unions can be very powerful. But it's up to the workers to decide if that's what they wa... ANNA KASTNER Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Not any soul on this earth can withstand the assault of the spirit. They may not accept it, they may... ELDER FEATHERSTONE If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, c... BRUCE LEE Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What ... AL JOURGENSEN The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framewor... KAPIL SIBAL To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one. THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin... ANDREI TARKOVSKY I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS It is one of these things that can be serious ... but if it occurs, there should be an automatic dep... DAVID KAMINSKI MORROW Stubbornness" is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged ... MICHELLE CRUZ-ROSADO Now she is ignoring me as first ... AS second Not every word... DEYTH BANGER But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of impo... IAN HAMILTON FINLAY Our parents are not the only people on this planet, and we should not base our life choices on what ... LUKASZ LANIECKI That means we do these things not to make money, but to keep our society functioning at a reasonable... PATTY CLARY Communication about important issues should be done by appointment only. To make an appoint say: I h... TERENCE T. GORSKI There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL There are tools we can use. It is not true that nothing can be done once H5N1 is back into wild bird... HON IP If you can control a mans thinking, you dont have to worry about his actions. If you can determi... CARTER G. WOODSON There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never en... PAULA HAWKINS It’s possible to be a great teacher and not be a great leader; however, all teachers should work t... BENJAMIN L. STEWART You should stop looking back and regretting about how things should have been. That will not help yo... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI What this project means, not just to the people of West Hartford, but to the entire capital region, ... JONATHAN HARRIS What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c... JEREMY TAYLOR What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c... ANATOLE FRANCE Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 Paul does not forbid yo... DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is ... OSCAR WILDE Not everyone who wants a tattoo has to be an artist, but if they can relay what they want, they can ... CHRIS NASR They believe anything that can be done should be done whether a patient wants it or not. That's what... GEORGE HSU What can the Fed do about WorldCom? This is not an interest rate problem. This is not something they... DIANE SWONK Since in early youth it cannot be known what ends are likely to occur to us in the course of life, p... IMMANUEL KANT When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could ver... JOEL OSTEEN
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