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Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. – Robert Collier	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. – Robert Collier	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. – Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. – Wilson Mizner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge. – J.B.S. Haldane, "On Being the Right Size" in the (1928) book "Possible Worlds"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. – Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more. – Jason Mraz	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river. – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. – Sy Parrish, One Hour Photo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite picture. – Steven Wright	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal. – Norman Vincent Peale	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. – Norman Vincent Peale	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Un croquis vaut mieux quun long discours.Fr., A picture is worth a thousand words. – Napoleon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique. – Anonymous	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. – Vincent Van Gogh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Draw a crazy picture,Write a nutty poem,Sing a mumble-gumble song,Whistle through your comb.Do a loony-goony dance'Cross the kitchen floor,Put something silly in the worldThat ain't been there before. – Shel Silverstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, its bad art. – Marc Chagall	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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