98 quotes found
“Men hate passion, any great passion. Henry Cameron made a mistake : he loved his work. That was why he fought. That was why he lost.”
“I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.”
“Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.”
“... he had always wondered why the sensations one felt in dreamas were so much more intense than anything one could experience in waking realitywhy the horror was so total and the ecstacy so comple...”
“She tried to tear herself away from him. The effort broke against his arms that had not felt it. Her fists beat against his shoulders, against his face. He moved one had, took her two wrists, pinne...”
“Hes not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-handers delusionprestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded.”
“My real soul...? Its real only when its independent...”
“He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a vacuum. There was no such person as Mrs. Wayne Wilmot; there was only a shell containing the opinio...”
“Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.”
“The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who f...”
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.”
“Now take a human body. Why wouldn't you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It would be ornamental, ...”
“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle....”
“The people had come to witness a sensational case, to see celebrities, to get material for conversation, to be seen, to kill time. They would return to unwanted jobs, unloved families, unchosen fri...”
“But I dont understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.That, said the Dean, is the Parthenon.- So it is.- I havent the time t...”
“But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.”
“In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone... Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire...”
“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”
“What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?”
“He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could n...”
