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Robert Brault - From the Abstraction category:
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Abstraction category:
Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Accomplishment category:
There is nothing in this world you cannot accomplish if you are willing to forfeit your deposit. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Aging category:
The older you get, the fewer things it seems too late to do. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Aging category:
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life - and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Ambition category:
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Ambition category:
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Appreciation category:
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Art category:
Art is an attempt to understand, yielding pleasure in the attempt whether or not we understand. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Artists category:
Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Authority category:
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Beauty category:
Does a rose exist that I might behold it? Or do I exist that a rose might be beheld? (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Chaos category:
Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Choices category:
Those who avoid the tough choices of life live a life they never chose. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Colour category:
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Criticism category:
If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Criticism category:
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Critics category:
It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Critics category:
An art critic is someone who hopes to see his ideas translated to canvas without having to learn how to paint. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Destiny category:
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Discipline category:
In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Dreams category:
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Effort category:
What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Ego category:
It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Failure category:
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's brush prevailed against his imagination. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Faith category:
Through faith we learn to believe the evidence of our eyes. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Finishing category:
Every great painting is left incomplete at the point where its completion is obvious. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Freedom category:
There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Friendship category:
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Friendship category:
The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Genius category:
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Genius category:
Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Goals category:
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Greatness category:
Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Happiness category:
To find a person who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Ideas category:
Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Immortality category:
We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Immortality category:
It is the abiding faith of mortals that mortality is a temporary condition. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Instinct category:
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Integrity category:
Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Joy category:
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Life category:
Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Life category:
There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Limitations category:
We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Listening category:
Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Masters category:
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Miracles category:
Yes, I believe in guardian angels, because otherwise I must believe that life is a string of death-defying miracles - and I don't believe in miracles. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Muse category:
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Nature category:
At the end of the day, Mother Nature has only one question for us: 'What life did you nurture today?' (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Optimism category:
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, 'What part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?' (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Optimism category:
The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Painting category:
The painter needs all the talent of the poet, plus hand-eye coordination. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Painting category:
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Perception category:
Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Pets category:
The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Pets category:
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Photography category:
That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Poetry category:
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Politics category:
Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Prayer category:
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Progress category:
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Purpose category:
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Questions category:
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Recognition category:
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Religion category:
Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Religion category:
To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Religion category:
If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies? (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Searching category:
We find things where we look for them. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Simplicity category:
O, how much simpler things would be / If eyes could paint or brush could see. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Simplicity category:
There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Success category:
The road to success is not a path you find but a trail you blaze. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Talent category:
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Time category:
First God created time; then God created man that man might, in the course of time, perfect himself; then God decided that He'd better create eternity. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Titles category:
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.' (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Trust category:
For every person you can trust, there was first a child who was trusted. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Trust category:
It is seeing ourselves in others that often prompts the remark, 'There's something about that person I don't trust.' (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Truth category:
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Winning category:
Where the loser saw barriers, the winner saw hurdles. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Wisdom category:
Wealth and wisdom are seldom combined, for the person who achieves one no longer desires the other. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Words category:
Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Work category:
In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor. (Robert Brault)
Robert Brault - From the Worry category:
Yes, I worry about the craziest things, but better me than someone less qualified. (Robert Brault)
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