What did Alexander Smith mean by: A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity. - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland Copy
+ We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Smith, Happiness, Remember, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
+ Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Smith, Death, Nature, Ugly, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
+ Christmas is the day that holds all time together. Feraz Zeid, August 25, 2023December 24, 2023, Alexander Smith, Christmas, Holiday, Xmas, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
+ To sit for one’s portrait is like being present at one’s own creation. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Smith, Creation, Portraits, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
+ Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it. Feraz Zeid, June 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander Smith, Time, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
+ How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Smith, Desire, Garden, Heart, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
+ Trees are your best antiques Feraz Zeid, July 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Alexander Smith, Antiques, Nature, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
+ The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alexander Smith, 0 - Alexander Smith Poet · Scotland
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
