Gabriel > Gabriel's Quotes

“I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.”
― Robertson Davies, The Rebel Angels

“The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”
― Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
― Edward Hopper

“Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)”
― Thomas a Kempis