1 Lead the reader toward the thought, then stop a little short. Read explanation Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Mason Cooley, Pause, Reflection, Suggestion, 0 Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
2 Art is not there simply to be understood. … It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion. Author, January 12, 2024January 6, 2025, Joseph Beuys, Complexity, Interpretation, Suggestion, 0 Joseph Beuys Artist · Germany Copy
3 In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed. Read explanation Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Creativity, Depth, Suggestion, 0 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writer · Germany Copy
4 It Was Once Suggested to Me that, as an Antidote to Crying, I Put My Head in a Paper Bag. Author, January 11, 2024January 6, 2025, Joan Didion, Coping, Emotions, Suggestion, 0 Joan Didion Writer · USA Copy
5 The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Mark Strand, Reality, Suggestion, 0 Mark Strand Poet Copy
6 In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. Author, December 23, 2023December 29, 2024, Paul Gauguin, Description, Music, Suggestion, 0 Paul Gauguin Painter · France Copy
7 Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Genn, Implication, Mystery, Suggestion, 0 Robert Genn Painter · Canada Copy
8 Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edward Teller, Paradox, Solution, Suggestion, 0 Edward Teller Physicist · Hungary Copy
9 The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four. Author, December 14, 2023December 29, 2024, Ernst Lubitsch, Creativity, Interpretation, Suggestion, 0 Ernst Lubitsch Actor · Germany Copy
10 Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. Read explanation Author, December 14, 2023January 1, 2025, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Excitement, Imagination, Suggestion, 0 Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosopher · USA Copy
11 I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it? Author, June 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Libba Bray, Knowledge, Reading, Suggestion, 0 Libba Bray Author Copy
12 Just imagine how suggestive things are. Author, June 26, 2023January 2, 2025, John Henry Twachtman, Imagination, Interpretation, Suggestion, 0 John Henry Twachtman Painter Copy
13 I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive. Author, June 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Alan Hollinghurst, Aesthetics, Suggestion, 0 Alan Hollinghurst Novelist · England Copy
14 Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion. Author, June 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Emile Coue, Evil, Overcoming, Suggestion, 0 Emile Coue Psychologist · France Copy
15 To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain. Author, August 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Brassai, Ambiguity, Interpretation, Suggestion, 0 Brassai Photographer · Romania Copy
The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy. Benjamin Disraeli Former Leader of the House of Commons · England
When we’re focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place. Read explanation Paulo Coelho Author · Brazil
A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man. Lord David Cecil Literary critic and biographer · United Kingdom
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. Marcus Aurelius Emperor · Italy
