Emily Post Quotes

You have to squeeze every creative moment and be grateful.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Make every thought, every fact, that comes into your mind pay you a profit. Make it work and produce for you. Think of things not as they are but as they might be. Don't merely dream - but create!

You'll find the future wherever people are having the most fun.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.

Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

I like taking a path into new country, and I always take the darker path. Not because it's dark, but because there's a secret there that you can share when you get out. That's what I liked as a kid. That's how I approach my work. With a face like mine, it's lucky I have a heart that likes that.

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur... that's all me.