Nicodemus quotes

Nicodemus quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“O my God, if Thy creations are so full of beauty, delight and joy, how infinitely more full of beauty, delight and joy art Thou Thyself, Creator of all!”
-- Nicodemus

#Art Quotes #Joy Quotes #Delight Quotes

“Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."”
“How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."”
“My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.”
“In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.”
“True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.”
“It is also very engaging - and a delight - to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.”
“If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.”

Source : Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan
“The books that charmed us in youth recall the delight ever afterwards; we are hardly persuaded there are any like them, any deserving our equal affections.”

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