Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
What thou lovest well remains.
If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.
My love admits no qualifying dross
At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
We may scavenge the dross of the nation, we may shudder past bloody sod, But we thrill to the new revelation that we are parts of God.
A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.
It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.
Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any.
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us.
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
