#suit

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

#chance #clear #concrete #course #got

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#constitution #guarantee #happiness #only #pursuit

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#ask #grow #him #himself #life

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#choice #gives #i #look #me

I didn't know why God had chose me for this ordeal, but I was somehow suited to it and knew that I would see it through to the end. ↗

— Amber Frey

#end #god #had #i #knew

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#beauty #because #dangerous #ego #goodness

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#dead #embroidery #expensive #grave #monument

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#beauty #certainly #interesting #makes #precisely

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#daily #falls #happiness #high #his

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#opponent #permit #pursuit #truth #violence