#tracts

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

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company. ↗

— Roy Ayers

#company #contracts #did #directly #i

I don't sign contracts for my books. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#contracts #i #sign

I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#astonishing #beheld #below #commanding #delight

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#attracts #because #bottom #charm #inexpressible

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words. ↗

— Hippocrates

#clearness #detracts #language #much #nothing

Evil is whatever distracts. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#evil #whatever

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. ↗

— Grenville Kleiser

#anxiety #asset #attracts #best #body

People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#face #front #i #i can #like

Acting attracts shy people and show-offs. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#attracts #people #shy #shy people