Art consists of limitation.
The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Quote by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
- A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
- All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
- Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
- Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
- Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
- Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
- Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Best Quotes
- My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
- You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
- All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.
- Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
- Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
- Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
- Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to take money our of their members' paychecks to buy the support of politicians that are favored by the union bosses.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
- I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.