#ordinary

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

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It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden. ↗

— Robert Adamson

#disruptive #down #endlessly #everything #get

I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#back #come #done #ever #extraordinary

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#around #corner #else #even #every

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#catholic #catholic church #church #civilizing #deepest

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. ↗

— Noel Coward

#extraordinary #how #music #potent

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#always #artist #authentic #bad #decent

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them. ↗

— Vincent McNabb

#control #extraordinary #fears #gives #god

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#feels #heart #long #love #ordinary