John Edgar Park quotes

“Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.”
-- John Edgar Park

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“All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.”
-- John Edgar Park

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“What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.”
-- John Edgar Park

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“The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.”
-- John Edgar Park

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“A living faith is always on trial; we call it faith for that reason. When I read in some alarmist book that the Christian faith is now on trial, or "at the crossroads," my impulse is to answer, Why Not? Does anybody know a time when the Christian faith was not on trial, or when the Christian life was a simple walkover, with neither principalities nor powers to dispute its advance?”
-- John Edgar Park

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“As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.”

“I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.”

“Don't frown beautiful, you fascinate me.”

“Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.”

“The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

“As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.”

Source : Ballads for Broadbrows (1930) "Lines for a Worthy Person"

“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.”

“Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.”

“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”