Charles Demuth Quotes

Paintings must be understood through the eyes, and that's not the word either. No writing, no talking, no singing, no dancing will explain them. They are the final, the nth whoopee of sight. ~ Charles Demuth

You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way. ~ William Carlos Williams

Flowers and flames. And color. Color as color, not as volume or light - only as color. ~ Charles Demuth

Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost. ~ Charles Lindbergh

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. ~ Charles Baudelaire

Everything that can be invented has already been invented. ~ Charles Holland Duell

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? ~ Charles Lamb

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation ~ Charles Petzold

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice. ~ Taylor Hackford

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth. ~ Charles Henry Mackintosh

There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails. ~ Charles Bukowski

No dependence can be placed upon our natural qualities, or our spiritual attainments; but God abideth faithful. He is faithful in His love; He knows no variableness, neither shadow of turning. He is faithful to His purpose; He doth not begin a work and then leave it undone. He is faithful to His relationships; as a Father He will not renounce His children, as a friend He will not deny His people, as a Creator He will not forsake the work of His own hands. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

While modern evangelical Christianity has undeniable historical roots, its explosion over the past thirty years is a triumph of the Gospel According to Wal-Mart. ~ Charles P. Pierce

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter. ~ Charles Bukowski

For me, I always admire anyone that's entrepreneurs or inventors. ~ Charles Michael Davis

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point. ~ Charles Francis Richter

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference. ~ Charles Albert Gobat

The man who is really forgiven, is anxious not to offend again; the possession of justification leads to an anxious desire for sanctification. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To be kept holy is better than merely to be kept safe. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money. ~ Charles A. Lindbergh

People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned
it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned
and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing. ~ Charles A. Murray

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people. ~ Charles Hodge

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. ~ Charles De Lint

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers. ~ Charles Dickens

Their touch triggered an electric spasm of agony. He felt the gushing warmth of blood on his fingers. [Charles Meredith] ~ Stephen Lloyd Jones

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~ Charles Horton Cooley

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Ego is the man, the male image. Ego is the phallic symbol, the helmet, the gun. The man behind the gun, the mind behind the man behind the gun. My philosophy is that ego is the thinking mind. The mind you scheme with, make war with. They shoved all the love in the back, hid it away. Ego is like, "I'm going to war with my ego stick." ~ Charles Manson

It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding. ~ Charles Kingsley

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded. ~ Charles Lamb

Lord, lead me not into temptation, and when there leave me not there; for unless thou hold me fast I feel I must, I shall decline, and prove an apostate after all. There is enough tinder in the hearts of the best men in the world to light a fire that shall burn to the lowest hell, unless God should quench the sparks as they fall. There is enough corruption, depravity, and wickedness in the heart of the most holy man that is now alive to damn his soul to all eternity, if free and sovereign grace does not prevent. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Thus the creation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those of the fatality of the Atheists. It would be absurd to say that the Creator might govern the world without those rules, since without them it could not subsist. ~ Charles De Secondat

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. ~ Charles Bukowski

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. ~ Charles Spurgeon

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing. ~ Charles Krauthammer

The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long long ago. So entirely had it lost the life and resonance of the human voice, that if affected the senses like a once beautiful colour faded away into a poor weak stain. So sunken and suppressed it was, that it was like a voice underground. So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would remember home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die. ~ Charles Dickens

Come out into the world about you, be it either wide or limited. Sympathize, not in thought only, but in action, with all about you. Make yourself known and felt for something that would be loved and missed, in twenty thousand little ways, if you were to die; then your life will be a happy one, believe me. ~ Charles Dickens