2014
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.
150 min
CLEAR ALL
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.
The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.