Adopt Quotes

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.