William Shenstone Quotes

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Nature eschews regular lines; she does not shape her lines by a common model. Not one of Eve's numerous progeny in all respects resembles her who first culled the flowers of Eden. To the infinite variety and picturesque inequality of nature we owe the great charm of her uncloying beauty.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I am 32 flavors and then some.

I never wanted to get caught in doing something that was really one note.

Every organization, every city is different.

Real people - everyone is not just one thing.

It's easy to just write about love, because everyone can relate, but I like variety.

The world would be a boring place if we all looked the same.

What frustrates me is florists who put everything at the same size on the table. I like it when there's mountains and valleys.

There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.

Everyone's going to like something that's different.

How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

If I had to express in one word what makes their [creative individuals'] personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual," each of them is a "multitude."

I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.

There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?

Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

Not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.

We all see the world differently. And thank God for that. Otherwise, what a boring world this would be.

Maybe we're all cabinets of wonders.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.