Quotes About Reflection

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence!

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.