💬 Quotes

"Innovation comes more from experimenting and taking risks than it does from fixed plans and avoiding mistakes."

"Fostering collaboration is about building trust and facilitating relationships."

"Recognition is not about 'job well done' hardware; it's about heart. It's about connecting with people on an emotional level."

"La poesia non è altro che una imitazione delle azioni umane, della natura e di quelle cose che o sono, o possono essere."

"Convenne adunque che il Poeta cercasse non solamente di dilettare, ma insieme anco di giovare, mescolando l'utile al dolce."

"Il volgar nostro, se ben coltivato con diligenza e giudicio, può render non meno ornati e gravi concetti che la lingua Greca o Latina."

"Convenienza e proporzione debbono risplendere in ogni parte del poema, sì come le membra nel corpo umano."

"Le figure e i modi parlanti non si debbono porre a caso, ma portati dalla forza del concetto e dalla necessità della materia."

"Chi vuol veramente imitare i buoni poeti, non dee torre solamente le parole, ma i pensieri, i modi e l'ingegno loro."

"The pivot round which the religious life turns opens out of space, rather than merely timescales; it enters a dimension of being that we cognize as mystical and transcendent."

"To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, are so many phrases which denote the process, gradual or sudden, by which a self hitherto divided, and consciously wrong inferior and unhappy, becomes unified and consciously right superior and happy, in consequence of its firmer hold upon religious realities."

"In the more characteristically religious life, the and-world is in the background, and the thou-world, or divine-world, is in the foreground."

"Saintliness is apt to be a panoramic spectacle. It has such a vast horizon that common morality feels cramped beside it."

"Although the outward sustenance of our life comes from our own bodily and social environment, we are conscious that an inward source of life is always available, and that when we draw upon it we are as if tied to a stream which bore us along."

"Mystical states, when successfully developed, usually span a wider horizon than ordinary discursive thought, carrying with them a curious sense of authority for after-time, though they are usually inexpressible in ordinary terms."

"Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. This is the happy hour's quality: this and my being one. I am a painter."

"A line is a dot that went for a walk."

"Art is a game with all the higher possibilities of form, and sometimes it is even the serious side of it."

"The genesis of creation cannot be rationalized. It must be accompanied by intuition, from the very beginning."

"Fantasy inspired by strict logical rules is a thing of beauty and utility."