#ten

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#exhausted #extracts #forgotten #give #greater

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#bugs #count #digital #find #go

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. ↗

— Rollo May

#betrayed #express #ideas #listen #original

If you follow the ancient maps written on the stars, no person will ever understand you. So if you could read these maps, would you follow them? And forever be misunderstood? Or would you close your eyes tightly and pretend to be like everyone else? ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#ancient-maps #destiny #inspirational #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#city #covered #extent #fortieth #hundred

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#book #certain #challenge #chosen #criticize

According to the concept of transformational evolution, first clearly articulated by Lamarck, evolution consists of the gradual transformation of organisms from one condition of existence to another. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#another #articulated #clearly #concept #condition

I don't really pay attention to the filmmaker thing. ↗

— Jason Mewes

#filmmaker #i #pay #pay attention #really

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense. ↗

— Mary McAleese

#count #decency #economic #extent #just

I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet. ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

#had #i #my own #own #screen