Pure Quotes - Page 38

• The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.202, WaterBrook

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• I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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• In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness, must be seen as nothing more than a fool.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Men, Knowing

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• What a pleasure to have children in Heaven and to watch them grow and develop without the Devil and all his imps around and without sin and the Curse and all the pain, sorrow and crying! It will be pure pleasure to have children in Heaven!

  David Berg

  Children, Pain, Heaven

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• Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Listening, True Nature

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• Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Opposites

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• In an archery contest, when the stakes are earthenware tiles a contestant shoots with skill. When the stakes are belt buckles he becomes hesitant, and if the stakes are pure gold he becomes nervous and confused. There is no difference as to his skil.

  Zhuangzi

  Confused, Skills, Differences

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• A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Feelings, Degrees

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.312, e-artnow

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• All the world would be Christian if they were taught the pure Gospel of Christ!.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Would Be, World

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• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Perfect, Faithful

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• Yon rosebuds in the morning-dew, how pure amang the leaves sae green!

  Robert Burns

  Morning, Rose, Dew

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.216

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• When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eggs, Portraits, Portraiture

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• Is not this lily pure? What fuller can procure A white so perfect, spotless clear As in this flower doth appear?

  Francis Quarles

  Flower, White, Perfect

  Francis Quarles, Christopher Harvey (1866). “Emblems, divine and moral; The school of the heart [really by C. Harvey] and Hieroglyphies of the life of man”, p.328

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• A sudden light transfigures a trivial thing, a weather-vane, a windmill, a winnowing flail, the dust in the barn door; a moment - and the thing has vanished, because it was pure effect; but it leaves a relish behind it, a longing that the accident may happen again.

  Walter Pater

  Weather, Light, Doors

  Walter Pater (2010). “The Renaissance: Studies of Art and Poetry”, p.166, The Floating Press

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• Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Epic, Philosopher, Poet

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• A mockingbird... was heard to blend the songs of 32 different kinds of birds into a 10 minute performance, a virtuoso display that served no practical purpose, falling, therefore, into the realm of pure art.

  Tom Robbins

  Song, Art, Fall

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• The landscape with its violent, pure colours dazzled and blinded me. I was always uncertain.

  Paul Gauguin

  Confidence, Landscape, Violent

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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• The word 'pure' has never revealed an intelligent meaning to me. I can only use the word to quench an optical thirst for purity in the transparencies that evoke it - in bubbles, in a volume of water, and in the imaginary latitudes entrenched, beyond reach, at the very center of a dense crystal.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Intelligent, Water, Use

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• And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Prayer, Night, Light

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1879). “Friar Anselmo: And Other Poems”

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• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Curves, Color, Lines

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• If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

  Max Muller

  Law, Deeds, Glory

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Children, Delight

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• Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

  Yves Klein

  Eye, Space, Existential

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.

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