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Construction

The artist reconstructs the random vocabulary of verticals, horizontals, diagonals,

volumes, cubes, spheres, textures, darks, lights, patterns, and color into an order
of vital relationships inextricably linked to the dynamics of life. (R. D. Abbey &
G. William Fiero) df

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand
were stone. (Jorge Luis Borges) sl

Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is always

limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the niveau of
his great rival. (Paul Cezanne) ba

The whole difference between a construction and a creation is exactly this: that a
thing constructed can be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is
loved before it exists. (G. K. Chesterton) df

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. (Winston Churchill) bcm

My precept to all who build, is that the owner should be an ornament to the house,
and not the house to the owner. (Cicero) bcm

I build a painting by putting little marks together some look like hot dogs, some
like doughnuts. (Chuck Close) tm

I let nature invade my mind with her variety of changing forms; these become the
building blocks that I draw upon to create. (Charles Duback) df

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main
thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a
figure. (Thomas Eakins) jb
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to
furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson) em

He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and
partake of the purest pleasure. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) js

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought
together. (Vincent Van Gogh) sg

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our
industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his
own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe... (Philip Guston) df

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other
things in a landscape. (Charles Hawthorne) gr

Castles in the air they're so easy to take refuge in. So easy to build, too.
(Henrik Ibsen) bcm

The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great
pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these "walls around art." (Wassily
Kandinsky) gr

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter
builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a
whole... (Henri Matisse) jb

I'll make them big like huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they will
have to look at them. [on flower series] (Georgia O'Keeffe) tm

Every act of construction is an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso) df

Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There one is truly without a name,
without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.
(Rainer Maria Rilke) ka

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to
work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build
end up building us. (Jim Rohn) hh

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were
making ships. (Charles Simic) em

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement... Of course, He could have
built it to last longer but you can't have everything. (Neil Simon) gr

Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled. (unknown) bcm

The road to success is always under construction. (unknown) cns

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain
from destruction. (Simone Weil) sl

These paintings are not planned... The construction of the picture happens as I go
from top to bottom. It's then that the adjustments occur: color, light, drawing,
tone. (Neil Welliver) df

Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in
inspiration. (Frank Yerby) ka

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Contemplation

The quiet time that I spend in my studio allows me the opportunity to contemplate
the poetic essence of a subject. (Peter Adams) ba

Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the
beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such
changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which,
like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be. (Marcus Aurelius) sc

At the heart of all creation lies deep contemplation. (Sandra Chantry) ab

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful

workman. (Ananda Coomaraswamy) gr

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. (Caspar David
Friedrich) jb

I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct
contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or
that in them. (Vincent Van Gogh) js

Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual
and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on
the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit. (Alex Grey) kc

There is no art without contemplation. (Robert Henri) rg

Painting is a means by which certain great people in the past have attained to a
maximum of being and self-awareness, and we can increase our own reality by the
contemplation of their works. (Francis Hoyland) sr

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside
themselves like honey in a jar and just be. (Elizabeth Janeway) ka

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. (Michelangelo) js

Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. (Friedrich Nietzsche) vl

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation. (Herbert Read) gr

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and
there defines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. (Auguste Rodin) sl

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation
and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. (Simone
Weil) js

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Contentment

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. (Aesop) sl

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is
satisfied with what is assigned to him. (Marcus Aurelius) nb

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of

ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. (John Balguy) sh

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he
will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. (Christian
Nestell Bovee) bcm

True contentment is a real, even an active virtue not only affirmative but
creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it. (G.
K. Chesterton) ab

Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
(Thomas Fuller) em

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. (Mahatma Gandhi) bcm

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. (Vincent Van Gogh) sl

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself. (Winslow Homer) jb

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am
complemented often enough all the same... (Claude Monet) ba

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because
painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. (Robert Rauschenberg)
df

Who doth ambition shun / And loves to live i' the sun, / Seeking the food he
eats, / And pleas'd with what he gets. (William Shakespeare) nb

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works
gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) sl

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Contrasts

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon it is the very

heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any
ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore
influences. (Josef Albers) gr

Some forms in nature or in its states of transition are torn, others spongy, still
others powdery... Take such varied contrasts and project them onto a flat surface,
whether in a 'composition' or as handwritten notes accidentally jotted down.
(Julius Bissier) df

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special
character its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts. (Alfred Brendel) df

In the canvas of life, a flat landscape would be pretty boring. It is the valleys
and the mountains that help us to appreciate the flatlands. It is the dark that
makes us appreciate the light, and the cold that makes us appreciate the warm.
(Anne Copeland) ab

In any painting a hard edge is harder and a soft one softer in the presence of the
other. (Warren Criswell) ab
There's a profound effect of black line against washes of colour. (Vicki
Easingwood) ab

Be sure that you don't lose the sharp edges, the contrasts in temperature and value
everything that supports this as a structure that exists in space. (Gay
Faulkenberry) ka

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
(Robert Henri) gr

I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against
straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly
nuanced shades of gray. (Fernand Leger) df

Contrasting color is the best means of capturing and incorporating the dramatic
effects of light in a painting. (Desmond O'Hagan) ab

Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only
exist, by reason of contrast. (Walter J. Phillips) ka

By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can move
the observer through the painting. (Mike Svob) ka

Contrasting color temperatures are as important as value contrasts. (Zoltan Szabo)

ab

Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than

opaqueness. (Ludwig Wittgenstein) gr

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Convictions

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else.

Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of
drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. (Berenice Abbott) sl

My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. (James Agate) js

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and
'Discovery the Art Form.' (Abe Ajay) df

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. (Pat Benatar) ka

Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that
everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn't
believe that everyone should see alike. (Mary Cassatt) gr

Conviction is the conscience of the mind. (Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort) sg

Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite
in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is
better to be nothing than an echo of other painters. (Camille Corot) df

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations
and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to
extend its boundaries. (Jose Ortega y Gasset) sl
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe) gr

I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the spot
that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that white
board must become something. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a

contribution to American painting. (Morris Graves) df

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more
profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go
abstract or take up photography. (E. J. Hughes) ka

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had enough individuality and
courage to stand by his own convictions. (Robert G. Ingersoll) rg

Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man
lives are his convictions. (Francis C. Kelley) js

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the
dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. (Eric Maisel) jb

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's
own convictions. (Rollo May) rg

His special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical
world he evokes actually exists. (Wright Morris on Norman Rockwell) sl

All of us who write work out of a conviction that we are participating in some sort
of communal activity. (Joyce Carol Oates) rg

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a
just cause. (Plutarch) sl

The height of your accomplishment will equal the depth of your convictions.
(William F. Scolavino) lc

From the artist there is no conscious effort to find universal truth or beauty, no
effort to analyze other men's minds in order to speak for them. His act in art is
an act of personal conviction and identity. (David Smith) wc

Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to compromise.
(Brian Tracy) hh

As long as I remain focused... I'm able to blast ahead, blazing my own trail with
little regard for who thinks what about it...! (Sandy Triolo) jb

If you stand, stand. If you sit, sit. But don't wobble! (Zen Master Ummon) vl

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed
to a star does not change his mind. (Leonardo da Vinci) sl

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Copying

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
(Louis Armstrong) nb
Copying opens your eyes to new possibilities, and new techniques... but trying to
fob it off as your own is quite another matter. (Louise Bunn) ka

If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some
large stones full of cracks and copy them. (Cennino Cennini) gr

The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the
triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and
always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some
judgment in draftsmanship. (Cennino Cennini) gr

It would seem that copying photographs is never considered plagiarism... Shouldn't

real artists get past the point of copying the finished work of fine art
photographers? (Robb Debenport) ka

I don't want people to copy Matisse or Picasso, although it is entirely proper to

admit their influence. I don't make paintings like theirs. I make paintings like
mine. (Stuart Davis) mb

If my students seem to copy me when they are learning, that is good. It shows they
are listening and trying to do what I tell them. They will develop their own style
soon enough. (William Draper) ba

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second
is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.
(Paul Gauguin) rg

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first. (J. E.
Hedges) bcm

Copy the works of the Almighty first and those of Turner next. [advice to a
student] (Edward Lear) gr

If you absolutely have to appropriate someone else's work do us the favour of being
a genius and make it say something entirely new. (Lori Lukasewich) ka

Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. (Michelangelo) st

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well

as or better than the whole could... I had to create an equivalent for what I felt
about what I was looking at... not copy it. (Georgia O'Keeffe) ab

Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or
treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship
result merely from a similarity of method. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability, especially

in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that nascent,
ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with which an
original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction. (Walter J.
Phillips) gr

There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to copying

its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting proportionately as
the latter increase. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

To copy oneself is pathetic. (Pablo Picasso) ka

A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy; so he has only to copy
to prove his originality. (Radiquet) js

The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning

color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the
model before you. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) nb

Copying clarifies the line between doing your own work and appropriating someone
else's. I think of it as a valid learning tool that should be set aside when you
become a professional. (Cindy Ricksgers) ka

I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my brain

sends me a product. (Phillipe Starck) df

If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by
people who have some relationship to the work of the moment. (Wayne Thiebaud) df

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Courage

Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has
ever been. (Alan Alda) sl

Just put a mark of paint on the canvas and let yourself carry on directed by hidden
instinct. That takes courage. To control but yet not to control. (Moncy Barbour) jb

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding colour and
suspense to all our lives. (Daniel J. Boorstin) vw

...if he will only have the courage of sincerity, taking hold with both hands and
discounting tradition. (Frank Carmichael) gr

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order
to keep it. (G. K. Chesterton) sl

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to
sit down and listen. (Winston Churchill) sl

A man full of courage is also full of faith. (Cicero) sl

Courage is like it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts.
It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging. (Mary
Daly) de

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since
courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. (Nigel Dennis) sl

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that?... I don't see
how he kept his canvas dry. (Ruth Draper) sl

A great part of courage is having done the thing before. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) bcm

There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity. If you get away with it, you
are brave. If you don't, you are stupid. (Francisco Escario) sj

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he
was. (Richard L. Evans) js

If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts. (Robert
Frost) nh

Dare to be naive. (Buckminster Fuller) bcm

Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas? (Paul Gauguin) jb

I begin to feel an enormous need to become savage and to create a new world. (Paul
Gauguin) ka

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? (Vincent Van Gogh) jfh

Courage is grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway) sl

The child is bold. He is not afraid of making mistakes. And he is patient. He can
tolerate an extraordinary amount of uncertainty, confusion, ignorance, and
suspense... (John Holt) lp

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

(Pauline Kael) sl

Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it
and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure
teaches something, if only what not to do. (Tiko Kerr) sus

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the
testing point. (C. S. Lewis) js

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the
victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living
awareness, every drop of the good. (Victoria Lincoln) js

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Raymond Lindquist) bcm

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce) js

I would kiss you, had I the courage. [letter to Isabelle] (Edouard Manet) sj

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this
courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw
it for the first time. (Henri Matisse) df

Creativity takes courage. (Henri Matisse) jk

Courage is when you do what you have to do though people don't think you can.
Courage is when you think you can't do something, but you do it. (Adam McCord) sl

It's raining again and once again I have had to put the studies I started to one
side... I am witnessing a complete transformation taking place in Nature, and my
courage is failing as a result. (Claude Monet) ba

The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances. Sometimes I play things
that I never heard myself. (Thelonius Monk) ab

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and
the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. (Keshavan Nair) sj
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin) sj

To create one's own world, in any of the arts, takes courage. (Georgia O'Keeffe) tm

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived
and making mistakes. (Camille Pissarro) sj

Without the looming possibility of defeat, glory would lose its taste. (Todd
Plough) ba

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a
courageous person afterward. (Jean Paul Richter) js

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn
courage. (Linda Seger) de

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day
sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first
effort. (Sydney Smith) sl

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. (Robert Louis
Stevenson) sl

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. (Robert Louis
Stevenson) js

We all are born into a world that already exists and are brainwashed from the
minute we take our first breath... It's easy to be a follower... It takes courage
to be a good leader. (Helena Tiainen) jb

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them,
glory and danger alike, and notwithstanding, go out to meet it. (Thucydides) gr

Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favours the brave. (Brian
Tracy) hh

Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test
your assumptions. (Brian Tracy) hh

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession
but carrying a banner. (Mark Twain) sl

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. (Mark Twain) sj

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure.
Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. (Vivekananda) sl

Maintaining a precarious balance on the fine line between success and failure takes
a lot of nerve. (Trevor Winkfield) df

Though nothing can bring back the hour /Of splendor in the grass, or glory in the
flower /We will grieve not, rather find /Strength in what remains behind. (William
Wordsworth) dr

A man shows reckless courage in entering into the abyss of himself. (William Butler
Yeats) ka
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Creativity

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies
and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of
originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. (Ansel
Adams) js

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. (Brian W. Aldiss)

bcm

Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this is
ready to become something higher and stronger than a bundle of wavering thoughts
and fluctuating sensations. He who does this has become the conscious and
intelligent wielder of his mental powers. (James Allen) ka

The essential ingredient for creativity is wasting time. (Anonymous) df

Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing; it

is the function of the ego of every human being. (Silvano Arieti) js

More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch television...
because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator. (Margaret
Atwood) ab

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive
and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
(Frank X Barron) df

Creativity is a lifestyle, and ideas are the product and lifeblood of that
lifestyle. (Miles G. Batt) gr

There is no one definitive creative path. There are many ways to be creative not
only intuitive ways but organized, logical ways, too. (Theresa Bayer) ba

Creativity is not a motive, it's simply an attitude of open-mindedness. (Eleanor

Blair) ba

The creative effort is a lot like sex. It's not so much the equipment you have as
what is in your mind. The real excitement and beauty is in what we think and feel
and what we do about it. (Kelly Borsheim) ka

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see
distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms,
harmonies, and orchestration. (Johannes Brahms) pd

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. (Van
Wyck Brooks) bcm

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born
abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a
god, and failure is death. (Pearl S. Buck) de

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws
already made. (Ferruccio Busoni) sj

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the
mystical union is an experience of creativity. (Julia Cameron) sl

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the
green fuse drives the flower.' (Julia Cameron) sl

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra) bcm

The emotional mind creates, and the rational mind explains it. Another way of
saying this is, your 'heart' perceives it and your 'head' translates it. (Alvaro
Castagnet) ka

When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. (Coco Chanel) ab

All who are creative, in whatever way, are doing something very important to the
well being of the world. (Sandra Chantry) ab

There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about
it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but you're
never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident. (Betty Comden)
sl

The making of a work of art is a sort of replay of the birth of consciousness the
separation of object from subject, the world from one's self. (Warren Criswell) ab

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. (Mary
Daly) sj

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a

blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself
and drag forth from your very soul an idea. (Lou Dorfsman) js

In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain
of totally subjective reactions. (Marcel Duchamp) df

From this [drawing], the treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become
evident through your creative work. (Albrecht Durer) ab

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose
of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson) gr

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) pd

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw
a spark from their juxtaposition. (Max Ernst) df

I guess when we become creative we move our lives onto a different energy flow or
something. (Marnie Evans) sl

Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the

depths of our being. (Dorothy Fadiman) sl

To be truly creative, you have to work beyond what you know. Pushing the envelope
is what being an artist is all about. (John Ferrie) ab

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know
that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
(Bernice Fitz-Gibbon) bcm
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna
Freud) ih

Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before
one dies. (Erich Fromm) sl

Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and

tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. (Erich Fromm) sl

Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man. (Naum Gabo) gr

When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything
for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some
day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we
can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. (John W. Gardner)
bcm

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental
lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal
imagination. (Robert Genn) sj

Creativity is not something you pluck off a shelf, it only becomes evident after
years of practice, experimentation and effort. (Don Getz) rg

As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I something

that is my life the power to create. (Vincent Van Gogh) ab

Creativity is no big deal. (Natalie Goldberg) df

I never got a job I didn't create for myself. (Ruth Gordon) rg

To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work, otherwise the result is either
a copy of something you did before or reads like an army manual. (Kenneth H.
Gordon-Jr.) js

Creativity is not reliant on limiting access to media. Neither is the use of media,
of new techniques just to "see" what they can do as a form of art... Is the artist
saying something we can hear... no matter what the language? (Cherie Hanson) ba

You can have no recipe with art. If you follow a recipe, you're negating the
creative act. (Denise Hare) df

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art
inevitable. (Robert Henri) sl

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which

works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with
nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist
translates his inner world. (Hans Hofmann) df

A representative painting of a mountain is simply a copy of what is reflected on

the eye's retina. A true painting of a mountain is a more or less imperfect record
of what transpires in the soul of the person behind the retina. [on The Group of
Seven] (F. B. Hoosier) sl

Creative activity is more than a mere cultural frill, it is a crucial factor of

human experience, the means of self-revelation, the basis of empathy with others;
it inspires both individualism and responsibility, the giving and the sharing of
experience. (Tom Hudson) df
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did
something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just
saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. (Steve Jobs) bcm

The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hands to execute.
(Junius) rg

In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting
creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much."
(Pauline Kael) bcm

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need.
The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could
not live without it. (Louis Kahn) df

The creative process for me unfolds in three stages that I call the search, focus
and application. (Earl Grenville Killeen) gr

The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All
intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the
fact in the future. (Paul Klee) df

Build Yourself Wings. Fly straight ahead. Walk a straight line. Visit. Leave a
special sign on the door. Make a gift of words. Mark your path with books. With
clothes. With food. Join two distant places. Two rocks. Two people. Bridge a river.
Build a city of sand. Raise up a mound. (Milan Knizak) nb

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes. (Peter
Koestenbaum) sj

The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in transforming

the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the creative process as
an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at the possibility of
creating a painting. (Frantisek Kupka) df

Creativity without implementation is irresponsibility. (Ted Leavitt) sj

One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new. (Harvey
Mackay) sl

Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. (Eric Maisel) ka

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity. (Eric Maisel) ab

Creativity is a commodity that must be paid for. (Stanley Marcus) nb

Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this

encounter as its center. (Rollo May) tjb

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he
may be said to have performed a creative act. (Margaret Mead) df

The great creative individual... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than
collective man ever can be. (John Stuart Mill) sl

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a
title on it, it becomes even more alive. (Joan Miro) ka
You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it. (Joni Mitchell) ka

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's
existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world. (Henri de
Montherlant) js

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment
is where work and play merge. (Stephen Nachmanovich) sj

Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from
winter or a river. I don't know how or when... (Pablo Neruda) sj

My work is about rhythm, relationships, continuity with the past... the stuff
beneath the skin of life. I follow the dictum of Anais Nin: 'Create against
destruction.' (Sandra Nickeson) df

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and
smooth the way for it. (Kimon Nicolaides) df

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because

both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be
opposed to are ugliness and injustice. (Liam O'Flaherty) df

Creating is a response to the gift of life. (Rosalind Pinsent) ab

Every act of creation is like a newborn child, needing loving care and lots of
attention, consuming your time and energy, and not necessarily profit-making.
(Faith Puleston) ka

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity
begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully. (Judith Schaechter) ab

Creativity is about intention, expression, and choice... At once cerebral and yet
visceral, it is what you think about in your head and what you feel in your gut.
(Randall Sexton) ka

Each is given a bag of tools, / A shapeless mass and a book of rules; / And each
must make, ere life is flown, / A stumbling block or a stepping stone. (R. L.
Sharpe) rg

Creativity is... seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out
how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. (Michele Shea)
js

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. (Gail Sheehy) sl

Creativity is as much about identifying possibilities as it is to do with flashes

of clear direction. (Tony Smibert) ab

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead

of his generation. (Gertrude Stein) df

...there never was a world for her. Except the one she sang and singing made.
(Wallace Stevens) sj

If you allow creativity to do its work without interruption or distraction, you'll

do a better job. (Peter Suedfeld) ba

The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music. (Rabindranath Tagore)

pd

The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it. (Twyla
Tharp) sl

Leonardo da Vinci paints only what he sees, but I create. (Arthur Villeneuve) df

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in
creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides,
ruins, and awe-inspiring places. (Leonardo da Vinci) df

Creators are hard-driving, focused, dominant, independent risk takers... A

willingness to toil and to tolerate frustration and persist in the face of failure
is crucial. (Ellen Winner) de

To create a lively painting on a dead canvas is like hearing the unheard, feeling
the unseen, painting the absence, moving the unmoveable, speaking to the silence
and bringing it to a meaningful conversation. (Mona Youssef) ab

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything

possible. (Joseph Zinker) df

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Criticism

There is no defense against criticism except obscurity. (Joseph Addison) js

A thick skin is a gift from God. (Konrad Adenauer) gr

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this
revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of
culture. (Theodor W. Adorno) js

If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now. (Fred Allen)
bcm

Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it. If it is unfair, keep from

irritation. It if is ignorant, smile. If it is justified, learn from it.
(Anonymous) lc

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right shame on you!
(Louis Armstrong) ba

I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn

and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. (Matthew Arnold) nb

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who
bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and
secretly at any bad review. (Isaac Asimov) bcm

Some artists keep three feet of personal space between themselves and constructive
criticism. (Jacqueline Baldini) ba

There is less in this than meets the eye. (Tallulah Bankhead) rg

The only crit an artist needs is praise. (Joe Blodgett) rg

These are not works of art at all, unless throwing a handful of mud against a wall
may be called one. They are works of idleness and impotent stupidity, a
pornographic show. [on Post-Impressionist works] (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt) gr

I hear all comments and criticisms around me. I chew on them. I'm nourished by the
ones that I decide work for me and spit out the others. (Kelly Borsheim) ba

Emile Zola, a reporter on L'Evenement, not only had his favourable criticisms torn
and thrown in his face on the street, but actually lost his job because he dared to
defend them [the Impressionists]. (Richard J. Boyle) jb

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him or her. (David Brinkley) sl

To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap
bubbles. (John Mason Brown) bcm

The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very
fine things. (Jean de La Bruyere) nb

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can
cut with a spoon. (Charles Buxton) js

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not
in criticism or commentary. (Albert Camus) bcm

When we criticise another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says
something about our own need to be critical. (Richard Carlson) js

By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. (Miguel de Cervantes) bcm

The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation
of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a
painting to deviate from its true path the concrete study of nature to lose
itself all too long in intangible speculations. (Paul Cezanne) ba

No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one

who's giving it. (Hal Chadwick) bcm

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a
tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. (Marc Chagall) sl

An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as
that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the artist's field is all
answers and no questions has neither. (Anton Chekhov) bcm

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: 'Of course I
do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.' (G. K. Chesterton) nb

I do not at all resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it for a
time parts company with reality. (Winston Churchill) bcm

Degas is nothing but a peeping Tom, behind the coulisses; and among the dressing-
rooms of the ballet dancers, noting only travesties of fallen debased womanhood,
most disgusting and offensive. (The Churchman 1886) gr

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without
destroying his roots. (Frank A. Clark) bcm

One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The
self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. (Charles Horton Cooley) js

I love criticism just so long as it is unqualified praise. (Noel Coward) bcm

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may
both be wrong. (Dandemis) bcm

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of

painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they
could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
(Eugene Delacroix) df

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been
said and doesn't get out of its rut. (Eugene Delacroix) jb

Criticism is easy, art is difficult. (Destouches) bcm

It is much easier to be critical than correct. (Benjamin Disraeli) lc

The soul that is within me no man can degrade. (Frederick Douglas) js

Come mothers and fathers / Throughout the land / And don't criticize / What you
don't understand. (Bob Dylan) bcm

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. (Max Ehrmann) js

Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at them
because you know it would hurt their feelings. (Eight-year-old) rr

It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to the
view of the passersby in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the
picture, would listen to the criticisms... (Pliny the Elder) sj

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we

should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a
book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of
criticism. (T. S. Eliot) vw

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) ba

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are
wrong. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but
guiding, instructive, inspiring. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. (Errol Flynn) gr

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
(Miles Franklin) bcm

All their pictures look pretty much alike, the net result being more like a garble
or gob of porridge than a work of art. [on the Group of Seven] (H. F. Gadsby) gr

Criticism and art, like theology and religion, are basically companions but not
always friends. At times they may be enemies. (John Champlin Gardner) bcm

We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect. (Robert Genn) jb
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
(W. S. Gilbert) ba

We have as yet no socially based art criticism which can address the inherent
irresponsibility of the work of art. (Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe) df

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad
seamanship. (Susan Glaspell) rg

If I believed what they wrote, I'd have slit my wrists a long time ago. (William
Goldman) ka

He's still as ugly as ever. There are images of his that set you back on your feet.
They flatten you like you haven't been flattened for awhile. I'm trying to say that
he can't be totally appropriated because he says something about the nature of
existence which we don't like to acknowledge. [on Caravaggio] (Leon Golub) gr

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in
the world. (Edmond and Jules De Goncourt) sl

The criticisms... by old women and others are noted. You may inform these people
that the Negro did not starve to death. He was not eaten by the sharks. The
waterspout did not hit him. And he was rescued by a passing ship. [letter to his
dealer on the painting 'Gulf Stream'] (Winslow Homer) jb

To escape criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard) rg

When looking at faults, use a mirror, not a telescope. (Yazid Ibrahim) bcm

It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was
once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the
verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren
Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was
accused of something perilously close to treason his paintings, said his severest
critics, were discouraging immigration. (A. Y. Jackson) sl

He has chosen the least pictorial features of the least pictorial range of scenery
and civilization; he has resolutely treated them as if they were pictorial, as if
they were every inch as good as Capri or Tangiers; and, to reward his audacity, he
has incontestably succeeded. (Henry James on Winslow Homer) jb

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect,
and the other is a horse still. (Samuel Johnson) nb

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small
expense. (Samuel Johnson) gr

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their
amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand
as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and
Envy the first notice of a prey. (Samuel Johnson) jb

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an

acquaintance or a stranger. (Franklin Jones) js

From how I breathe, literally, to whether or not a piece of art is "crap," the kid
will speak. (Julie Rodriguez Jones) ba
Why don't you write books people can read? [to her husband James] (Nora Joyce) js

A "scream" is always just that a noise and not music. (Carl Jung on Pablo
Picasso) sl

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied
and the viewer praised. (Rockwell Kent) sl

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless
approval of the masses. (Johann Kepler) bcm

Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when
you criticize them, you're a mile away. And you have their shoes. (J. K. Lambert)
ab

A preliminary drawing for a wallpaper pattern is more highly finished than this
seascape. [on "Impression, Sunrise" by Monet in the first Impressionist exhibition]
(Louis Leroy) tm

I cried all the way to the bank. [when asked whether he minded being criticized]
(Liberace) nb

If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may
as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if
the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result
is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
(Abraham Lincoln) js

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.
(Hamilton Mabie) lt

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to
understand what the artist saw. (J. E. H. MacDonald) gr

Whata do thesea alla have ina common? Crap! They're all crap! [quoting her Drawing
101 teacher in students' critique] (Mary Madsen) ba

You're there to be shot at, and that's part of it. (Norman Mailer) ka

Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise
artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes. (Eric Maisel) jb

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me...
People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted. (Edouard Manet)
jb

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. (Edouard Manet) sl

Art sunk so low does not even deserve reproach. (critic on 'Olympia' by Edouard
Manet) jb

You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future do
advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his metier
at all. [to Claude Monet] (Edouard Manet) gr

I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavourable circumstances the
curtains were up. (Groucho Marx) js

If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all means
paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced. (Henri Matisse) sl

While I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right,
assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me
to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism,
regardless of its source. (Henri Matisse) jb

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

(W. Somerset Maugham) js

If I can't put the critical comment into an esthetically adequate form, I don't
make the comment. (Philip McCracken) df

Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, / Words can sting like
anything but silence breaks the heart. (Phyllis McGinley) js

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. (H. L. Mencken) js

Father the Bishop of Salisbury. At his especial request the small piece of blue sky
was inserted as making it a more suitable marriage gift than the cloudy skies usual
in his Pictures. [note found tucked between the canvas and the stretcher,1877] (E.
Mirehouse) gr

An explorer doesn't chart a lake and then note that it would be more suitable if
located 300 miles to the east. Instead, the explorer describes just what is found.
(Diana Mohrsen) pd

Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but
that's just too bad... (Claude Monet) ba

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't
want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to
criticism; that's enough. (Claude Monet) ba

While we sketched from a model, Gleyre criticized my work: "It is not too bad," he
said, "but the breast is heavy, the shoulder is too powerful, and the foot too
big." I can only draw what I see, I replied timidly. (Claude Monet) gr

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more
like you blurt something out and then analyze it. (Robert Motherwell) js

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. (Napoleon)
js

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his
fingers are pointing at himself. (Louis Nizer) js

He wrote nearly a quire of utter nonsense. Fortunately he has forgotten all about
it now, and I shall burn it after I show it to you. He said it was his greatest
work. [wife of Robert Louis Stevenson,letter to a friend on first draft of 'The
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'] (Fanny Osbourne) ab

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than
we do in our own. (Pablo Picasso) sl

Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No
sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour. (Walter J. Phillips)
gr
There was a reviewer... who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any
end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment.
(Jackson Pollock) mb

Don't ignore the request to critique someone's art. It was often a hard one to
make. Silence always sends a negative message to a fragile ego. (Andrea Pratt) ba

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake and of the
faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. (Chinese
proverb) lc

There once was a sculptor of mark, / Who was chosen to brighten Hyde Park; / Some
thought his design / Most uncommonly fine, / But more like it best in the dark. [on
Jacob Epstein's 'Rima', 1925] (Punch) gr

Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions. (Howard Pyle)
jb

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the
public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and
read. (Rainer Maria Rilke) nb

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.
(Eleanor Roosevelt) sl

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt) sl

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got
the benefit of all my doubts. (Charles Rosin) js

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. (Gioacchino Rossini)
vw

In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue
until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always
putting down everybody else's artwork. (Jim Rowe) ab

Criticism polishes my mirror. (Rumi) svb

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. (Donald Rumsfeld) js

Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures are
not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just
doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet. (Paul Signac) gr

I do not judge, I only chronicle. (John Singer Sargent on his own art and subjects)
sl

The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own work. I
assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff. (Stephen Sondheim) ba

I don't object against the light tree trunks in the distance of the paintings, only
if your tree trunk in the foreground would be a little darker than those in the
distance, it would be easier to overlook the painting. I hope you don't mind my
criticisms in this way. If you allow me, I may tone the tree down a bit. (Max Stern
to E. J. Hughes) ka

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine.
Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought
out with love. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) ba

We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can
get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism... (Wayne
Thiebaud) jb

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion what a man
thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. (Henry
David Thoreau) js

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at
the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. (Mark Tobey) df

Bonnat tells me: "Your painting isn't bad, it is 'chic,' but even so it isn't bad,
but your drawing is absolutely atrocious." So I must gather my courage and start
once again... (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) gr

Assassins! [to his orchestra] (Arturo Toscanini) sl

I can live for two months on one good compliment. (Mark Twain) lc

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (unknown) bcm

They are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or no
discriminating young man, his fiancee to see... [on Jacob Epstein's Strand Statues,
1908] (Father Bernard Vaughan) gr

When you paint look at your work in a mirror; when you see it reversed, it will
appear to you like some other painter's work and you will be a better judge of its
faults. (Leonardo da Vinci) gr

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgement of our work. We derive
more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing
the opinions of friends. (Leonardo da Vinci) jb

As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely

biased, as it is in most cases. (John Vorster) nb

All his own geese are swans, as the swans of others are geese. (Horace Walpole on
Sir Joshua Reynolds) jb

I am a deeply superficial person. (Andy Warhol) ab

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. (Booker T.

Washington) em

You learn more from a critique if you are given negatives rather than positives...
"You have a nice painting. I think you have succeeded," tells a student nothing...
(Annette Waterbeek) ab

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and
earnest labour is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. (James Abbot
McNeill Whistler) jb

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his
cause, "What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?" (James
Abbot McNeill Whistler) nb

These so-called artists style themselves Intransigeants, Impressionists... They

throw a few colours on to the canvas at random, and then they sign the lot. (Albert
Wolff) jb

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. (William Butler Yeats) sl

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. (Zeuxis) rg

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Critics

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to

discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such
things as are worth their observation. (Joseph Addison) js

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a
comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. (Nelson Algren) bcm

A critic is a legless man who teaches running. (Anonymous) nb

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. (Whitney

Balliett) bcm

They are quite hopeless-drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips.

[on music critics] (Thomas Beecham) sl

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done
every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. (Brendan Behan) bcm

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to
please him. (Ambrose Bierce) em

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is
the function of the critic. (Clive Bell) nb

Do not be an art critic, but paint, therein lies salvation. (Cezanne to Emile
Bernard) ba

A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure critics all are ready
made. (Lord Byron) nb

When I abuse the language, I call it 'art' and call myself an artist; when you
abuse the language, I call it 'wrong,' call myself a critic, and assume an air of
unimpeachable authority. (Fennec A. Churl) bcm

Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets... (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
nb

Let my enemies devour each other. (Salvador Dali) sl

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded. (Tyne
Daly) ru

They call me the painter of dancers. They don't understand that the dancer has been
for me a pretext for painting pretty fabrics and for rendering movement. (Edgar
Degas) jb

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my
heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece. (Jim Dine) jb
A non-doer is very often a critic that is, someone who sits back and watches
doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to
be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. (Wayne Dyer) hw

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes
they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done,
rather than concerning themselves with what they did. (Duke Ellington) bcm

Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has
imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. (Henry
Fielding) nb

Every critic will see something different. (Hans Frabell) df

A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.
(Anatole France) nb

I sometimes think / His critical judgement is so exquisite / It leaves us nothing

to admire except his opinion. (Christopher Fry) nb

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able
to find them. (Richard Le Gallienne) bcm

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. (Paul
Gauguin) jb

Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic the one who does not
swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before...
howling is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults:
don't be afraid, don't tremble the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even
brain: it is stuffed... (Paul Gauguin) jb

When I stay in the present the inner critic disappears. (Susan Geddes) ab

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say
about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion. (Robert Genn) jb

Talk to your inner critics. Find out what they have to say about you. In most
cases, when you hear how extreme and absurd their criticisms are, it will be easier
to dismiss them. (Sharon Good) de

They never raised a statue to a critic. (Martha Graham) ih

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how
it feels about dogs. (Christopher Hampton) nb

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic
spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe and all is gone. (Thomas Hood) nb

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography. (E.

J. Hughes) ka

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and
everything for yourself. (Henry James) bcm

There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their
amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand
as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and
Envy the first notice of a prey. (Samuel Johnson) nb

Every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he whom
Nature has made weak, and Idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by
the name of a Critic. (Samuel Johnson) gr

You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who
has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. (Samuel Johnson) jb

Dance like nobody's watching. (Joseph Joubert) ak

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting. (Walter Kirn) ba

It takes a day or two to leave the critic at the door before we can truly explore.
(Antoinette Ledzian) ba

I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic

position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists...
I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer. (Lucy Lippard) df

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what
we have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) bcm

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. (James Russell Lowell)
bcm

I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.
(Groucho Marx) nb

A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
(Cecil Blount de Mille) bcm

Every time I make a picture the critic's estimate of American public taste goes
down another ten percent. (Cecil Blount de Mille) bcm

I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. (Claude Monet) jb

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two
opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at
different times. (Michel de Montaigne) sl

The lot of critics is to be remembered for what they failed to understand. (George
Moore) gr

After all his literary efforts had come to nought and he had to wear dark glasses,
he became an art critic. (Edvard Munch) jb

Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with
critics they desire our blood, not our pain. (Friedrich Nietzsche) nb

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up
my own mind about it how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that the critics
can write what they please. (Georgia O'Keeffe) sl

It is better to get written up in the social columns than in the art critic's
reviews. (Charles Pachter) sl

Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the
light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge,
may appraise them conveniently. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged not the critics or the
academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental
rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will
not be bullied. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged
work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment The critic is in demand, but
he must be competent. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist Heaven forgive them
but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one,
that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair
game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

Nor in the critic let the man be lost. (Alexander Pope) nb

Don't share your opinion on an artist's work with others until they have achieved
some measure of "objective" success. (Andrea Pratt) ba

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would
find nothing to write. (J. B. Priestley) nb

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;
because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually
strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who
spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring
greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) dr

You can lead a fool to a book, but you can't make them think. (J. K. Rowlings) sj

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with
him. (John Ruskin) gr

Never to go overboard for an unknown artist is a sign of bad character in a critic.

(John Russell) gr

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it,
it's sublime. (Charles Saatchi) js

For I am nothing if not critical. (William Shakespeare) nb

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. (George Bernard Shaw) sl

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in

meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only
to other critics and their ilk. (Brian Sewell) gr

I had a dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like
with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya. (Igor
Stravinsky) nb

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on
others. He expected the finest. (Wayne Thiebaud) gr

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000
critics. (Mark Twain) js

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. (Kenneth Tynan) nb

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the
glass. (unknown) ab

Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those doing it.
(unknown) js

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty
neck. (Eli Wallach) js

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
(Andy Warhol) jb

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic a temperament exquisitely

susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. (Oscar
Wilde) js

Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They

always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their
own rules. (Robert Anton Wilson) djs

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Cubism

Let them eat their fill of their square pears on their triangular tables! [on
Cubism] (Marc Chagall) ba

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't
been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its
importance would have been diminished. (David Hockney) mb

Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If you
go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look
different. It is a point of view. (Jacques Lipchitz) sl

In Cubism, in the end what was important is what one wanted to do, the intention
one had. And that one cannot paint. (Pablo Picasso) js

The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a
method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the
useful nor the useless. (Pablo Picasso) sl

If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his paintings
he would faint. (Jacqueline Roque, wife of Pablo Picasso) sl

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Culture

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. (John Abbott) js

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion but none have really walked
alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history,
their culture, and their values. (Peter Abrahams) ba

We are not just a country of war or oil. We are a proud culture that goes back
6,000 years to the Sumerians. We have been making art for longer than anyone. This
is what gives us identity. This is what will make our art last another 1,000 years,
when all this war is forgotten. (Qasim Al-Sabti) js

Artists create identities for cultures and societies. (Anonymous) df

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in
the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. (Matthew Arnold) gr

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and what is more, the passion for
making them prevail. (Matthew Arnold) gr

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for
it. (James Baldwin) bcm

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex. (Ruth Benedict) rg

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite
set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. (Ruth Fulton Benedict) bcm

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in
proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish! (William
Blake) bcm

We are no longer dependant on what New York, Paris, Rome or L.A. says about culture
and art. We have become both international and regional at the same time. (Linda
Blondheim) ab

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under
question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity. (Earle Brown) sl

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect,
is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
(Albert Camus) gr

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is
also. (Charles Horton Cooley) js

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them
in a word, to create a living art this has been my aim. (Gustave Courbet) rg

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at
work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social
character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social
emancipation. (Angela Davis) sl

I am sure that only art will bring together all the peoples of the world. (Ousmane
Dia) sn

In every human society of which we know prehistoric, ancient or modern, whether

hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial at least some form of art
is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly engaged in.
(Ellen Disanayake) df

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. (Henry Van
Dyke) js

Competition among rival groups of "primitive" people pushed artisans into new
heights of complexity, i.e., art. (Lloyd Dykk) ba

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it,
but somehow it does something. (Hans Magnus Enzensberger) sl

The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to
read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis
consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture? (Jonathan Franzen) bcm

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. (Mahatma Gandhi) bcm

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture. (Jose Ortega y
Gasset) bcm

Whoever controls the media the images controls the culture. (Allen Ginsberg)
bcm

All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art looks

different. (Henry Glassie) tm

Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday
life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.
(Thor Hansen) tm

If you see in any given situation only what everyone else can see, you can be said
to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it. (S. I.
Hayakawa) bcm

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.
(Elbert Hubbard) bcm

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. (Robert
Hughes) df

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to
follow his vision wherever it takes him. (John F. Kennedy) df

The process of immersing myself in other cultures has become the most intensely
emotional artistic experience of my life. (Glen Knowles) gr

The artist has to be a guardian of the culture. (Robert Longo) ka

I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values
affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain
depth. (Yo-Yo Ma) ba

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already
moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up. (Andre
Malraux) df

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head.
It is the real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a
critique, and everything he says is a gloss. (Robert Motherwell) df

May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we value,
rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary
endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary
light to the dark, fire to the chill. (Jan Phillips) sl

We have only two ways to react to creative people in this culture; we either
worship them or we're jealous. (Albert Rothenberg) df

The artist is the record keeper of present time and keeper of timeless culture.
(Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) ab

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their
deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. (John Ruskin) js

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own. (William Shakespeare) rg

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do,
I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. (Henry David
Thoreau) vw

The best art intersects the culture it exists in, rather than critiques it. (Meyer
Vaisman) df

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when

their turn comes, will manufacture professors. (Simone Weil) rg

Listen! There never was an artistic period. There never was an Art-loving nation.
(James Abbot McNeill Whistler) gr

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. (Thomas Wolfe) js

Cultural activity and access to the materials of the life of the imagination is as
ordinary and as vital as the right to read, the right to shelter, squarely at the
centre of our lives as the catalyst of our imaginations and the prompter of our
dreams. (Max Wyman) ba

We are in the process of a cultural revolution under global culturalism. (Gu Xiong)
ab

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Curiosity

When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many worlds.
(Eric Booth) js

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
(Edmund Burke) js

He is so childlike in his laughter. In his curiosity. He gets excited about things

most of us are too jaded to notice. He is really different. (Victor Chan on the
Dalai Lama) ba

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
(Winston Churchill) sj

Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more
than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Clarence Day) js

Wolves are hunters; they are adaptable with eyes that absorb their landscape. Be
like the wolf. Fascinating and alive with curiosity. (Michael Duncan) ba
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein) vw

Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of
reality. (Albert Einstein) js

The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things
work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he
can see other people doing. He is open, perceptive, and experimental. (John Holt)
lp

We are no more than God's curiosity about himself. (Thomas Mann) df

I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is,
namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate
the next blow from our own extended faculties... (Marshall McLuhan) df

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen Parr) sg

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too
curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
(Alexander Pope) pd

Kids are curious. Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. (Jim
Rohn) hh

At the birth of a child, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with
the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. (Eleanor Roosevelt) rg

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (James Stephens) nb

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory. (Richard

Whately) js

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Danger

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred Adler)
bcm

Prejudice is always dangerous. (Sister Wendy Beckett) mb

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions that when it ceases to be dangerous

you don't want it. (Anthony Burgess) sl

Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than

riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I
do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net! (David Cobley) ab

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. (Marcel Duchamp) df

In danger there is great power. (Agnes Whistling Elk) rg

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) nb

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Harry Emerson
Fosdick) lrp
A danger foreseen is half avoided. (Thomas Fuller) lc

Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same
models and approximately the same path? (Theodore Gericault) gr

The fisherman knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have
never found these dangers sufficient reasons for staying ashore. (Vincent Van Gogh)
df

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which
the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. (Ernest
Hemingway) nb

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times

doing. (E. J. Hughes) ka

The incumbent hazards lent the activity [mountain climbing] a seriousness of

purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. (Jon Krakaur) js

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated
way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself
into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. (Henry Miller) df

I was hard at work beneath the cliff... In short, absorbed as I was, I didn't see a
huge wave coming; it threw me against the cliff and I was tossed about... My
immediate thought was that I was done for... the palette which I had kept a grip on
had been knocked over my face and my beard was covered in blue, yellow etc.... the
worst of it was that I lost my painting which was very soon broken up... everything
was torn to shreds by the sea... (Claude Monet) ba

A mad panic has swept our area... As for myself, I'm staying here regardless and if
those savages insist on killing me, they'll have to do it in the midst of my
paintings, before my life's work. [Giverny, September 1, 1914] (Claude Monet) ba

The greatest temptation and danger is to rely on previous solutions and thus paint
the same picture for the rest of your life. (Charles Movalli) rg

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping
from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling
mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the
chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.
(Edvard Munch) jb

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest
enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. (Friedrich Nietzsche) nb

There's more danger in the violence you don't face. (Michael Ondaatje) ba

Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we
refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.
(Pablo Picasso) sl

A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. (Pablo Picasso)
df

My art is about paying attention about the extremely dangerous possibility that
you might be art. (Robert Rauschenberg) mb
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through
an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. (Rainer
Maria Rilke) jb

Resolve says, "I will." The man says, "I will climb this mountain. They told me it
is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my
mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the
side from trying. (Jim Rohn) hh

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to
confront and disarm it. (Sir Walter Scott) js

What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough. (Kazuaki Tanahashi) df

Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger. (Lao-Tzu) rg

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very
seductive and a little dangerous. [to her daughter, the Crown Princess of Prussia,
1901] (Queen Victoria) sl

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on
the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... (Thornton Wilder) js

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned
portrait painters who develop a methodology. (Jamie Wyeth) ba

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Dealers

To the big-city high-powered galleries demanding exclusivity, my argument is: if

you want to be the only agent who sells my work, you must guarantee me a minimum
annual income. So far, no one has been willing to do that. (Eleanor Blair) ba

Galleries are the place to see artists before they hit the museums. Good gallerists
are innovators who recognize talent and support that. But it's important to
remember that the public is a key part of this. (Caryn Coleman) js

No great collection was ever formed without a dealer. (Gil Edelson) js

Dealers should not import, export, or transfer the ownership of a work of art where
they have reasonable cause to believe that it has been stolen. (Gil Edelson) js

However innocent or careful the dealer may have been, no dealer would welcome the
inevitable conflict with a good client turned irate on discovering that he or she
had been sold a stolen work. (Gil Edelson) js

It seems that the Internet is the wave of the future and the gallery will become
obsolete. (John Ferrie) ab

Galleries are displaying a product. They're not museums. People shouldn't feel
intimidated. (Nohra Haime) js

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great
deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows
me a lot more time for painting. [to Max Stern] (E. J. Hughes) ka

The best artist/gallery relationship is symbiotic in the sense that it should be to

our mutual benefit. (Katherine McLean) ab
I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led to
my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I hope,
when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still. [to Amand
Gautier] (Claude Monet) ba

My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even if
it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do otherwise
I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile of
incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors... [to
Paul Durand-Ruel] (Claude Monet) ba

Surely you already have a fair number? You do, it's true, keep them cleverly
hidden, since they're never on display, which in my opinion is a mistake: what's
the point of us painting pictures if the public never gets to see them? [to Paul
Durand-Ruel] (Claude Monet) ba

The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming
accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own
shows. (oliver) ab

Of course, the artist must have galleries usual ones or the Internet kind it is
just important that people see the artist's works. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) ab

When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe
great curators and their unforgettable shows literally unforgettable because you
remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition. (Charles Saatchi) js

Painting is an art, selling is a business. Therefore, it makes economic sense that

artists and galleries need each other. (Jo Scott-B) ab

No man will work for your interests unless they are his. (David Seabury) lc

When the gallery sells, I pay them a commission for the sale. They get money when
they do their job. It's human nature to want to hang onto money that you have in
your hand. Artists are in the weaker position. (Lori Woodward Simons) ka

It takes a long time and great expense to build up the name of an artist and if one
of his paintings suddenly appears at a low price at an exhibition especially, then
the build up may be endangered. (Max Stern) ka

We need to have a focused and coherent work presence in any given gallery. If you
are in the groove doing your best work in a preferred medium and style with subject
matter you know well, then just keep painting and showing... it will break for you.
(Richard Tomkinson) ab

A good artist/gallery relationship will ensure that the buyer is kept abreast of
the artist's development in an effort to maintain an interest in the artist. (Chris
Tyrell) ba

It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where
people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson
builds the need in the mind of the buyer. (Jack White) ba

Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a
mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated
about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a
purchase. (Sylvia White) js
Galleries come and go for many reasons so you must assume that you will have to
replace one of ten galleries every year or two. (Dan Young) ka

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Deception

Appearances are often deceiving. (Aesop) js

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of
distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
(Francis Bacon) df

All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he

understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been. (Sister Wendy Beckett on
Salvador Dali) mb

Art is the most beautiful of all lies. (Claude Debussy) lt

'Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must
succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. (Edgar Degas) jb

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as

the commission of a crime. (Edgar Degas) df

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. (Edgar Degas)
ab

It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown. (Anatole
France) ka

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it
really is. (Kahlil Gibran) js

Audubon biographers and scholars [have noted], by various euphemisms, that all
great men have their flaws, and their man's principal flaw was that he, well, he
lied a lot. (Bil Gilbert on John James Audubon) sl

He who knows a thousand works of art knows a thousand frauds. (Horace) js

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. (Max Jacob)
sl

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does
not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. (Samuel Johnson) nb

You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time;
but you can't fool all of the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln) nb

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light
joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
(Henri Matisse) sl

What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a
great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterwards appear,
however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost
without any labour, and very easily, although it was not. (Michelangelo) ba

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.

(Robert Motherwell) ka

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well

deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. (Pablo Picasso)
sl

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to
understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the
truthfulness of his lies. If he only shows in his work that he has searched, and
researched, for the way to put over lies, he would never accomplish anything.
(Pablo Picasso) nb

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. (Plato) ba

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (William Shakespeare) nb

When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike. (Alfred, Lord
Tennyson) ab

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. (James Thurber) nb

Deceit... is what art does best. (Meyer Vaisman) df

Paul Gauguin may have done it... the weight of evidence... is overwhelming.
Everything we know about what happened is from Gauguin. But Gauguin was an
inveterate liar. He was also armed. [on Van Gogh's severed ear] (Rita Wildegans) ba

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Depression

I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go
on, and it will be better tomorrow. (Maya Angelou) dm

Keep painting your demons. (Jack Beal) df

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

(Albert Camus) js

May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows
me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.
(Max Ehrmann) js

Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became an
effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it went
toward night. (F. Scott Fitzgerald) ba

Depression needs to lift and clutter needs to disband. Even these two elements
serve a purpose in the path to a new piece of work. Clutter meets clutter, and
creates a spark. In the lull of a dark cloud and sedate thought, images come. (Gail
Griffiths) ab

What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand. (Winslow Homer)
jb

To some degree depression is a function of unconscious anger. Pay attention to your

angry feelings. Don't feel guilty about them. (Steve Hovland) ba

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break
occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that
there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. (Lee Krasner) df

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by
its nature prone to depression. (Eric Maisel) ab

Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars. (Louis L.
Mann) lt

Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. (Ann-Marie McDonald) cw

I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual

torture. (Claude Monet) rg

To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside there's
brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it... (Claude Monet) ba

I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down I seem to have
nothing to say it appalls me but that is the way it is. (Georgia O'Keeffe) df

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Design

Sometimes I lure myself step by step away from realism... it's much harder than
simply painting what I see and sometimes isn't a very comfortable way to work. By
putting concept first I can concentrate on good design. (Judith Blain) gr

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design it reinforces it. (Pierre
Bonnard) df

The motivation for design comes from an unfailing sense of wonder about light and
its effects on the form of everyday images. (Robert E. Buchanan) gr

The design of negative space can be just as important as the positive image. (Joan
Fedoroshyn) ab

As I see it our job as designers is to find as many varied routes for the eye to
follow through the composition as possible. (Peter Folkes) ka

After you have designed the composition, everything else you do is merely execution
- not that execution is by any means trivial, but virtuosity of execution is for
naught if the composition is wanting. (John Gargano) ab

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free
the painting hand. (Robert Genn) ab

If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan lightness/darkness

is natural. (Sara Genn) jb

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. (Milton Glaser) df

Working in a studio environment with a still life, portrait or figure gives you a
great deal of control in the design. You can carefully plan the position and
movement of the subject, adding and subtracting elements as needed. (Sidney Hermel)
ba

There is a danger in too strong a reliance on design as an end in itself that can
lead to a kind of fatal self-indulgence. Design and composition should always serve
multiple objectives. (Michael Jorden) ba

Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing
will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally
find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw
continuously. (Rico Lebrun) df

The technique of value reduction forces you to make some difficult choices... but
helps you focus on the most significant elements of the design. (Richard McDaniel)
gr

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the
source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it
seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design
itself or a branch of that art. (Michelangelo) jb

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. (Bruno Munari) jb

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a
manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
(George Nelson) jb

Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must
be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its
construction. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

Every painting must have a design structure, a foundation of line and shapes on
which to build the values, color and detail. (Carlton Plummer) df

Good design means as little design as possible. (Dieter Rams) jb

The abilities to draw and paint are slaves to good design. (David Rankin) gr

What seems to divide the excellent and lasting from the mundane and forgettable
works is the underlying design control... this basic abstract organization of
elements. (Ron Ranson) vw

Through the use of design elements and strong light patterns, I strive to give...
common objects their chance for center stage. (Susan McKinnon Rasmussen) ab

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of

purpose with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic
insight and a deep reverence for the love of life. (Millard Sheets) df

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design. (John
Sloan) gr

Unless it gets in the way of a creative flash of inspiration, design time is never
wasted. (Tony Smibert) ab

Design is everything. It is the structure of the painting. Among the major

principles of design, unity is probably the most important... how the elements work
together. (Marion Starr) ba

The design process is basic problem-solving. (Jack Stoops) js

Design ideas are more apt to flow from a mind that has been imprinted with rich and
varied visual experience, rather than one that has had limited exposure. (Jack
Stoops) js
Design is more hands off, not as personal. Fine arts is everything about you.
(Connie Watts) ba

The painting begins as a feeling but ends as another body of myself. Therefore,
design knowledge not only strengthens the painting, but puts backbone into the
painter. (Frank Webb) aw

Design is like gravity the force that holds it all together. (Edgar Whitney) df

How can I qualify my faith in the inviolability of the design principles? Their
virtue is demonstrated. They work. (Edgar Whitney) js

A masterly, powerful stature as a designer can be acquired only by a fairly normal

mind plus scholarship. (Edgar Whitney) js

If the design is sound, and the values are correct, almost any colors within reason
will work. Beautiful color harmonies, on the other hand, will not save a painting
whose design and values are poorly considered. (Eric Wiegardt) ka

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Desire

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. (Aesop) sl

The desire to express myself can be triggered by any number of things a

particular experience, a childhood memory, a fleeting thought. Although these are
often blurry, the images they evoke become sharper and clearer in time... (Fernando
Allevi) ab

He who wants milk should not sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for a
cow to back up to him. (Anonymous) lc

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for
the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle) em

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach) js

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Richard Bach) bcm

Never let go of the fiery sadness called: desire. (Matsuo Basho) rg

What you don't need is just as important as what you do need. (Romare Bearden) df

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. (John Berry)
vw

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

(William Blake) jb

I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the
norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic. (Alfred Brendel) df

Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is. (Gerald
Brommer) df

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my

wants. (J. Brotherton) js

Gie me a spark o' Nature's fire, / That's a' the learning I desire. (Robert Burns)
rg

I can hardly wait to get the mundane daily tasks finished so I can get into the
studio to paint, but then the desire goes right down the drain with the dishwater.
(Ardythe Campbell) ab

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling...
Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was
a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that
starting point must pervade the whole. (Emily Carr) ka

There is one big thing desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.
(Willa Cather) rg

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. (James

Dickey) la

Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or
desire. (Wayne Dyer) hw

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of
one's own ever-shifting desires. (Albert Einstein) sl

Cezanne found that desire without obstacles could easily be the death of desire.
(John Elderfield on Paul Cezanne) mb

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson) bcm

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what
you have was once among the things only hoped for. (Epicurus) js

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he
wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. (Benjamin Franklin) sl

Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. (Lucian
Freud) gr

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for
something to occur to you. (Robert Frost) bcm

Never commit the Execution of a Design to him that had been unwilling to approve of
it. (Thomas Fuller) bcm

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live science, everything
that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most
disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. (Remy de Gourmont) js

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (James Halliwell) js

Someday I'll wish upon a star. [the Wizard of Oz] (E. Y. Harburg) nb

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it
is just sheer desire. (Don Henley) rg
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things
they do not want to do. (Eric Hoffer) js

Make sure you want it enough. (Frank Kingdon) sl

If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want
it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. (Rudyard Kipling) js

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are
destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the
pit of creation. (Paul Klee) df

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)
sl

Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. (James Russell Lowell) js

Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they
haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and
turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions. (Eric Maisel) ab

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds they would
frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to
obtain. (Andre Maurois) jb

I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. (Claude Monet) ba

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. (Bruce Nauman) rg

People who want to be creative, who deeply value such a characteristic in

themselves, are more likely to make themselves creative and keep themselves that
way... (D. N. Perkins) df

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention,
and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's
what's important. (Pablo Picasso) js

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. (Ray Prince) sl

There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any
resemblance to what one has in mind. (Marcel Proust) nb

A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to
discover its cause. (Ayn Rand) js

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. (Francois de La
Rochefoucauld) bcm

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get
it. (Jim Rohn) hh

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a
teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. (Jim Rohn) hh

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. (Jim Rohn) hh

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they
think. (Rumi) sl
When you don't feel like painting is when you must. (Monique Sakellarios) ab

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must
corner the inner facts... (David Seabury) js

The drive to paint becomes an essential guide, directing attention to particular

subjects. Almost like love-making, there is anticipation, a build-up of excitement
and passion, a lack of control. (Randall Sexton) ka

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. (George
Bernard Shaw) vw

I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made
of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other
desire. (Isaac Bashevis Singer) ba

Desire is the very essence of man. (Benedict Spinoza) nb

You have to know what you want to get. But when you know that, let it take you. And
if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back because that is
instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where
you have been before, you will go dry. (Gertrude Stein) df

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food...
(Irving Stone) sr

Ask for what you want. Ask for help, ask for input, ask for advice and ideas but
never be afraid to ask. (Brian Tracy) hh

I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing
faces. (Fred Varley) gr

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. (Leonardo da Vinci) js

Landscape sparks in us a desire to render on canvas the poetry that viewing it

makes us feel, and in some deeper way, connects us to it like a silent prayer.
(Janet Warrick) ka

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Desperation

The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the
feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole
sensibility. (Francis Bacon) jb

...such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would
have put an end to my life only art it was that withheld me, ah, it seemed
impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon
to produce. (Ludwig van Beethoven) sl

Rather than trying to kill or ignore the beast, I feed it. It remains a beast, but
changes suddenly into one of desire instead of despair. (Warren Criswell) ab

Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I
not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times... (Max
Ehrmann) js

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. (Franz Kafka) nb
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become
desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the
abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. (Willem de Kooning) dr

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

(Thomas Merton on Vincent Van Gogh) sl

You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs
and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little, as I am
in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even work. [to
Arsene Houssaye] (Claude Monet) ba

Most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing
glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. (Louise Nevelson) sl

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. (Gerhard
Richter) df

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o're-fraught heart,
and bids it break. (William Shakespeare) js

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song
still in them. (Henry David Thoreau) sh

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his
hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
(Henry David Thoreau) js

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Destiny

Master yourself, then you can master your world. Man is manacled only by himself;
thought and action are the jailers of Fate. (James Allen) rg

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to

be waited for, but rather something to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan) js

Choice, not chance, determines destiny. (Bill Byrne) sl

One fine day... as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her,
and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, "Mama ... I want to be a
painter." (Marc Chagall) sl

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the
gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. (Edwin H. Chapin)
vw

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely let
the reader mark it that they are identical. (Winston Churchill) nb

We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces,
we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare
occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration... (Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi) jb

I never intended to make art. (Walt Disney at display of his work at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art) tm
There's a Chinese proberb that I think is true: You often find your destiny on the
path you take to avoid it. (Hector Elizondo) ba

I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause
one to be. No one knows what makes an artist. (Robert Engman) ba

I never wanted to be a composer. I am a composer, which is a different thing.

(Vivian Fine) ba

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life
that is waiting for us. (E. M. Forster) js

Do not try to find out we're forbidden to know what end the gods have in store
for me, or for you. (Horace) nb

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. (Frank Hubbard) bcm

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. (Henrik
Ibsen) bcm

By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my
destiny as a painter opened out to me. (Claude Monet at 17) sj

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. (Jacques Monod) ba

I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the
wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot,
and so there is no rest. (John Muir) jh

I am going to be an artist! I don't really know where I got my artist idea... I

only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind. (Georgia
O'Keeffe) ab

What must be, must be. (proverb) nb

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap character. Sow character
and you reap destiny. (Charles Reade) js

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't
each person give his life for his calling? (Clara Schumann) ba

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among
you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
(Albert Schweitzer) js

I am passive. I just open myself up to it and take whatever happens. (Mary Smart)
rg

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense
of destiny. (Brian Tracy) hh

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Determination

My determination becomes colder to grab this twitching, living monster, and lock it
away in crystal-clear, sharp lines and planes, to quell it and strangle it. I do
not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. (Max Beckmann) df
My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer
of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it! (Emily Carr) ka

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is
more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius
is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. (Calvin Coolidge) em

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
(Walt Disney) sl

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. (Wayne Dyer)
hw

Decide what you think is right and stick to it. (George Eliot) bcm

If necessary, I would even paint with my bottom. (Jean-Honore Fragonard) gr

However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without

having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end. (Paul Gauguin) jb

Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
(Rosabeth Moss Kanter) sl

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are
determined to achieve... (Robert H. Lauer) gr

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it,
you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug. (Edouard
Manet) gr

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the
determination to make the right things happen. (Peter Marshall) gr

It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out of a
situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my next
Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again. (Claude Monet)
ba

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in
my tenacity. (Louis Pasteur) sh

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it
with courage and with the best that you have to give. (Eleanor Roosevelt) sl

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to

elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau) sl

The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry,
application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
(Mark Twain) sl

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Difficulty

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties

disappear and obstacles vanish into air. (John Quincy Adams) js
God doesn't believe in the easy way. (James Agee) js

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these
three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. (Maya
Angelou) dm

Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if a
thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee. (Marcus Aurelius)
sj

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee
doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Mary Kay Ash) js

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue...
(Romare Bearden) df

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard
to paint. (Leland Bell) df

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if
you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. (Lawrence Bixby) sl

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes
taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet) em

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the
state of mind to make them. (Constantin Brancusi) df

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent
the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
(Francois Cavanna) js

I have made some progress. Why so late and with such difficulty? Is art really a
priesthood that demands the pure in heart who must belong to it entirely? (Paul
Cezanne) ba

The contour eludes me. (Paul Cezanne) df

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties
of his art does nothing that counts. (Jean-Baptist-Simeon Chardin) jb

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
(Frederic Chopin) bcm

on trying to paint a pale-blue sky: "My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto."
(Winston Churchill) sl

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. (Confucius) ab

It's been a rough day. I got up this morning, put on a shirt and a button fell off.
I picked up my briefcase and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the bathroom.
(Rodney Dangerfield) bcm

Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and

I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one
fully realizes one's own weaknesses. (Eugene Delacroix) jb

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein) sj

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are
right. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) em

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain
their reputation from storms and tempests. (Epicurus) dr

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. (Henry Ford) gr

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
(Henry Ford) sl

I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought
it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's
difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. (Lucian Freud) sa

They called it a job that couldn't be done / With a smile we went right to it, / We
tackled that job that couldn't be done / And by gosh, we couldn't do it. (H. D.
Genn) ab

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) gr

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
sh

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. (Vincent Van
Gogh) tm

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's
a very demanding thing. (Roger de Grey) df

Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal or

opposite or greater advantage or benefit. (Napoleon Hill) sl

Life is short, the Art is long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous,

judgement difficult. The physician must be ready, not only to do his duty himself,
but also to secure cooperation of the patient, of the attendants, and of externals.
(Hippocrates) dr

I got the light and the sea that I wanted, but as it was very cold had to paint out
of my window and I was a little too far away... (Winslow Homer) jb

When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. (Horace) nb

Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health. (Carl Jung) js

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin
Luther King-Jr.) sl

Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various
manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on
imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void
as you might have feared. (Frantisek Kupka) df
To fly we have to have resistance. (Maya Lin) sl

Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is
still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what's easy. Great
undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives
for the great, And thereby the great is achieved. (Lao-Tzu) dr

A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't think
anyone must ever think about it getting easier. (Alica Markova) nb

Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His
road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make
it more so. (Henri Matisse) js

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose,
because before he can do so, he has first to forget all the roses that were ever
painted. (Henri Matisse) sl

My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the
breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes it a
gorgeous floor. (Michelangelo) ba

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest
lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the
easiest. (Henry Miller) js

It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the
ambience. (Claude Monet) ba

It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written but
then, try to do it! (Claude Monet) ka

I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving on
the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing! (Claude Monet) ka

It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every

respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my
dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again... (Claude Monet) ba

It's harder than you think, and I'll bet that you would not split much wood. No,
you see, advice is very difficult to give, and I don't think it would serve any
purpose, if I may say so without offense. (Claude Monet, letter to Bazille) sj

Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and persistence.
(Walter J. Phillips) gr

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. (Pablo Picasso) df

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. (English proverb) sl

Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to fix
my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most difficult
thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time. (Arnulf
Rainer) df

The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern
with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
(Adrienne Rich) sg
In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. (Rainer Maria
Rilke) rb

Those wonderful things out of doors... rain, falling snow, wind all these things
to contend with only make the open-air painter love the fight. (Elmer Schofield) jb

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not
dare that they are difficult. (Seneca) sj

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the
effort. (George Bernard Shaw) sl

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an
equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
(Socrates) em

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to
stop him. (John Steinbeck) ba

An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. (Terence) lc

After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: "What did I do right?" and
"What would I do differently?" (Brian Tracy) hh

Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. (Brian Tracy) hh

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which
to fulfill the most difficult tasks. (John Vianney) sl

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward) sl

Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on
earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. (Jessamyn West) sj

One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?" Taiga
answered: "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult."
(Zen calendar) ap

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Discipline

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare

Bearden) ba

What is before me and what is inside of me governs all. (Henry Casselli) df

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. (Miguel de

Cervantes) bcm

Like bodies these canvases are subject to both discipline and incontinence, to the
utmost athletic control, and to fumbles, spurts, accidents. (Andrew Forge on Willem
de Kooning) df

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent
without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. (Sidney Harris) df

An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully

attending to all that concerns him. (Eric Maisel) ka
Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline? (Yehudi Menuhin) ka

Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to

understand what one is drawing. (Henry Moore) sl

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while
failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. (Jim Rohn) hh

You don't get into the mood to create it's discipline. (Twyla Tharp) js

An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as
disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to
freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations... (Wayne Thiebaud) df

Mental discipline of directing and choosing ones thoughts, of letting go of the

ones that do not serve the process is of utmost importance. (Helena Tiainen) ab

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline
of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate
sensitivity. (Anne Truitt) df

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender

emotions (though those are its raw materials), but of intelligence, skill, taste,
proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline. (Evelyn
Waugh) gr

Duty is what one expects from others it is not what one does oneself. (Oscar
Wilde) ba

Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's the
discipline. (Jamie Wyeth) ba

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Discovery

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining
operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from
a single shaft. (Abe Ajay) df

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. (Clive Bell) gr

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of

knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin) vw

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist. (Rex
Brandt) df

Painting is not a means of communication or even self-expression, but rather a

process of discovering, or uncovering. (Louis de Brocquy) df

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover...

(Martin Buber) df

What I discover while I'm painting is all-important to me. (Martha Clark) ba

When you realize that the contours of objects are not always visible to the human
eye and therefore don't have to be recorded, you enter into a period of visual
discovery like no other. (Jack Clifton) df

I do my best work and have the most fun when I'm not sure exactly where I'm
heading. The process of discovery is exhilarating. (Jill Cohen) ka

Each painting is a kind of discovery, a discovery of new forms, color relation, or

balance in composition. With every painting completed, the artist may change his
viewpoint to suit the discoveries made, making his vision many-sided. (Robert
Colquhoun) df

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and
heart finds and publishes it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it,
transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me...
(Alberto Giacometti) df

Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and

create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
(Alberto Giacometti) df

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies

which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of
reality. (Ernst Gombrich) df

We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we
are clear-sighted. (Robert Henri) df

An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

(John F. Kennedy) sr

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. (Arthur
Koestler) js

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. (Madeleine
L'Engle) sl

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature
that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something... (Brad
Leithauser) df

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination. (George
Henry Lewes) bcm

It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what
happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of
the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider
things. (Peter London) df

As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover:
by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing
laughter. (Eric Maisel) jb

The process of image-making is the evolution of an idea, the pursuit of which can
be like following clues in a treasure hunt. One discovery leads to another.
(Richard McDaniel) gr

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner. (Henry Miller) rg

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting
discoveries. (A. A. Milne) js

In a picture, it should be possible to discover new things every time you see it.
But you can look at a picture for a week together and never think of it again. You
can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. (Joan Miro)
js

I didn't want them to be pictures in the 'arranged' sense. I wanted them to be

found... so that the dictionary words of describing an object disappear. (Rodrigo
Moynihan) df

When you begin a picture, you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on
guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each
destroying of a beautiful discovery the artist does not really suppress it, but
rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial. (Pablo Picasso) jb

You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather
copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them
something new. I love discovering things. (Pablo Picasso) df

The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that
reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the
conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.
(Marcel Proust) df

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having
new eyes. (Marcel Proust) js

People who thrive on their creative energy are tapping into something that is
innate in the human race the ability to discover something new. What makes them
different is the desire and motivation to create. (Faith Puleston) ka

Learning versatile approaches increases the artist's vocabulary and adds another
dimension of expression. And that is what painting is ultimately about: to discover
the best way in paint to most closely express what you want to say. (Stephen
Quiller) jb

If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and
ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his
voyage of discovery. (Herbert Read) df

To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see.
You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of
another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things...
(Paula Rego) df

Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what. (Paul Reps) df

We must live in the joy of discovery and shout out the beauty, as well as the pain,
of this human/natural experience. (Grace Sanchez) ka

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again. (Will Smith) rg

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. (Albert Szent-

Gyorgyi) sj

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has
thought. (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi) ab
On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds. (Mark Tobey) df

When you create art, you want to use yourself as an instrument to find out about
things. (Kim Tran) df

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor.
(Leonardo da Vinci) js

The artist will always discover something personal to say about any spot in the
wide world where he or she chooses to set up the easel. (Robert Wade) ab

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Doubt

When I paint, I liberate monsters... They are the manifestations of all the doubts,
searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists experience... One
does not choose the content, one submits to it. (Pierre Alechinsky) df

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be
content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) nb

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's
doubts. (G. B. Burgin) ab

When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. (Raymond
Chandler) bcm

I love to doubt as well as know. (Dante) bcm

I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it

seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the
world and with myself. (Edgar Degas) jb

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in
your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes) em

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress,
am I making mistakes in art? (Paul Gauguin) jb

Of that there is no manner of doubt / No probable, possible shadow of doubt /

No possible doubt whatever. (W. S. Gilbert) nb

It seems to me that if any one doubts the value or 'use' of painting they doubt the
value of being. (Francis Hoyland) sr

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. (Benjamin Jowett)
sh

Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's
own powerful solution. (Wassily Kandinsky) ba

Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take

risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and
despair than those who do not court the creative muses. (Eric Maisel) sl

Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I can
never like what I do? (Eric Maisel) jb
Doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizner) ba

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond
doubt that they are right. (Laurens van der Post) gr

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. (Joseph Roux)
js

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain
of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell) js

I always doubt my paintings can hold together. I'm trying to get to the point where
they carry the sense of doubt that is one of the most engaging things about
painting. (Mark Schlesinger) df

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt. (William Shakespeare) pc

I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned that
the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by the
love of a woman the need to be worthy of her. (Will Smith) de

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson) mrs

I see something that blows my socks off and I'm left in the dust of my doubts and I
have to start building the wall of conviction/isolation all over again. (Sandy
Triolo) jb

Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. (Voltaire) ab

The analytical left brain not only breaks the painting into its components, it is
also the doubter, the inhibitor and the one that doesn't want to ruin the painting.
(Marney Ward) ab

Compositional know-how gives us a weapon to fight aesthetic phantoms of doubt,

fear, discouragement and apathy. It turns all these negatives into yea-saying.
(Frank Webb) aw

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am
I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting? (Neil Welliver)
df

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Drawing

Remember that the relationship of a foot to a leg is no less critical than its
relationship to the head. When a student says, 'I know this is right,' I ask,
'Compared to what?' Nothing stands alone in a drawing. (James Adkins) df

Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In

small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest
weakness is easily seen. (Leon Battista Alberti) df

A curved line is the loveliest distance between two points. (Anonymous) df

The process of drawing is, before all else, the process of putting the visual
intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and
sculpture it is the process by which the artist makes clear to himself, and not to
the spectator, what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.
(Michael Ayerton) df

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
(Balthus) df

All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their
minds, and not according to nature. (Charles Baudelaire) df

What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I forget
everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other activity...
(John Berger) gr

I love the early stages of a painting when I am drawing with the brush and
establishing the composition. (Stephen Brown) ab

When drawing complex subjects, don't look at the subject, but at the negative space
or background shapes the subject creates. (Lisa Buck-Goldstein) ka

Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it
is, it will be well worth while, and it will do you a world of good. (Cennino
Cennini) df

Drawing and colour are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw. The
more the colour harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. (Paul Cezanne) gr

Drawing is risk. If risk is eliminated at any stage of the act it is no longer

drawing. (Lorne Coutts) df

Learn to draw so effectively that it becomes second nature almost another

language. Carry a sketchbook at all times. (David Curtis) ba

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is

either good or bad. (Salvador Dali) sl

Make a drawing, begin it again, trace it; begin it again and trace it again. (Edgar
Degas) gr

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of

writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. (Edgar Degas)
jb

Drawing is not the same as form; it is a way of seeing form. (Edgar Degas) sj

Once I start making marks on the paper, it becomes more about responding to these
marks and less about copying the image... (Mark Demsteader) ba

Can't draw, won't draw no painting. (Chris Dennis) cd

My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making the
best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. (Jim Dine)
df

Drawing, within the visual arts, seems to hold the position of being closest to
pure thought. (John Elderfield) rg

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a
tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by
watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and
can then draw him at every attitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly discover the world. (Frederick

Franck) df

To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the
stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of
adoration is called, 'drawing from life.' (Frederick Franck) df

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen... (Frederick
Franck) gr

A critic at my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my

drawings. My drawings! Never! They are my letters, my secrets. (Paul Gauguin) gr

Drawing is still the bottom line. (Robert Genn) ab

We should talk less and draw more. Personally I would like to renounce speech
altogether, and like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say in
sketches. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) df

I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb

The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. (Andy Goldsworthy) rg

Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is an

instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not. (Betty Goodwin)
zp

By drawing, man has extended his ability to see and comprehend what he sees.
(Frederick Gore) df

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can
always paint. (Arshile Gorky ) jb

For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be
drawn with bulging eyes and no chin. (Matt Groening) bcm

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw... Drawing is still basically

the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the
world. It lives through magic. (Keith Haring) tm

A sketch has charm because of its truth not because it is unfinished. (Charles
Hawthorne) gr

Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different

materials. A drawing is an invention. (Robert Henri) jb

Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the
thing. (Robert Henri) jb

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the
things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand
of his sketchbook. (Robert Henri) df

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad. (Robert Henri)
gr
A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.
(Robert Henri) gr

I merely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. (Barbara Hepworth) sl

The serpentine line, or line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time
different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its
variety. (William Hogarth) gr

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in
pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio. (E.
J. Hughes) ka

Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my

pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines. (E. J. Hughes) ka

Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is
drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his
nervous and muscular system. (Rene Huyghe) df

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at
work. I told her I worked at the college that my job was to teach people how to
draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" (Howard
Ikemoto) nb

Every good painting must be based on a good drawing. Drawing is like the bones to
the human body. (Diana Kan) df

It is my firm belief that contour, gesture, and modeled drawing are absolutely
fundamental modes of working for all artists... No artist that I know ever stops
using these modes of drawing. (Robert Kaupelis) df

A line is a dot that went for a walk. (Paul Klee) tm

As in the fourteen likes of a sonnet, a few strokes of the pencil can hold
immensity. (Dame Laura Knight) gr

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly
our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made. (Rico
Lebrun) df

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough
to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences. (Rico
Lebrun) df

Drawing is the sum of directions. (Andre L'Hote) df

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place
for color in advance. (Andre L'Hote) gr

A curved line for beauty, a straight line for duty. (Violet Linton) lyc

The least object or detail of an object that caught his attention was immediately
fixed on paper. These sketches, these brief drawings that one might call
instantaneous, show with what certainty he seized on the characteristic trait and
the decisive moment. (contemporary on Edouard Manet) sj

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

(Henri Matisse) sl

Remember, a line cannot exist alone; it always brings a companion along. Do

remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it
creates a volume. (Henri Matisse) df

Drawing helps you become familiar with the subject. It releases you from working
out so many things on canvas, and thereby increases your freedom as a painter.
(Richard McDaniel) gr

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that
he holds a great treasure. (Michelangelo) ba

Draw, Antonio, draw draw and don't waste time! (Michelangelo) ab

I never draw except with brush and paint... (Claude Monet) ba

I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to
realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. (Henry
Moore) df

Sketchbooks in general... seem to contain mainly studies for paintings... For me,
the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some
of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without
premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no
plan to make them. (Robert Motherwell) df

Drawing is the foundation of the painting to familiarize yourself with the

subject and to work out problems of perspective and proportion. (Michael Nevin) ka

Some people hark to the past as a paradigm of how things were before they went
wrong; they talk about going back to drawing. To me, it's about going forward,
putting a new brick in the building of experience. Drawing from observation must
inevitably be of its time. (Graham Nickson) df

Drawing is the life and soul of painting: especially outline, is the hardest; nay,
the Art has, strictly speaking, no other difficulty. Here are needed courage and
steadfastness; here giants themselves have a lifelong struggle, in which they can
never for a moment lay aside their arms. (Francisco Pacheco) gr

In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult to
repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone. I work on drawing as a
final product. It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write
about, and do drawing. (Deanna Petherbridge) df

Drawing is the representation of form the graphic expression of a visual

experience. (Walter J. Phillips) ka

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes
and takes a seat on the paper. (Pablo Picasso) jb

To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. (Pablo Picasso) sl

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine
day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true
character. (Camille Pissarro) gr

If an artist draws a subject over and over again in different ways, then he will
learn something... (Pudlo Pudlat) df
Contour drawing helps you see that the things you are drawing aren't things but
rather shapes that intertwine and connect. (Charles Reid) ab

My drawings inspire and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place
us, as does music, in the ambiguous world of the undetermined. They are a kind of
metaphor. (Odilon Redon) df

Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value
set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect
unfinished; but they are truly valuable... they give the idea of a whole. (Sir
Joshua Reynolds) gr

What is this drawing? Not once in describing the shape of that mass did I shift my
eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp
of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes
see. (Auguste Rodin) df

My drawings are the result of my sculpture. (Auguste Rodin) gr

If you can't draw something, just draw it. (Dieter Rot) df

Lines create an experience beyond the literal. There is so much potential in losing
and finding the line again. Like letting go and being awakened. Lines, like music,
create potential for mystery. (Linda Saccoccio) ba

Let the object draw the picture using the ink brush as a tool. (Chinese saying) df

On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper,
pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I
also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. (William
Scott) df

Drawing is an idea more than fact. (Jack Shadbolt) df

The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never graduate
from drawing. (John Sloan) gr

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the

coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the
artist's thought. (John Sloan) gr

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing

even its faults have become virtues. (John Sloan) gr

Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of
those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch
masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.
(John Sloan) gr

Draw on both sides of the line, not just what you're enclosing. The shape you're
making on the outside is as important as the one you're making on the inside. Get
into the habit of thinking that you are drawing two forms, one on either side of
the line. (Leon Polk Smith) df

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have
drawing, value and design. (Matt Smith) ab

Line is so versatile you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or

simply put a line around an idea like a cartoonist. (Stan Smith) ka

You can't see everything at the same time. Your eyes can only see one part at any
given moment. Therefore, draw by concentrating on one part at a time, but always
compare that part against other things. (Ted Smuskiewicz) jb

I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and
perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic
training. (Saul Steinberg) sl

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the
pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no
higher than that. (James Thurber) df

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. (James Thurber) dr

The doodle is the brooding of the hand. (Time Magazine) sl

You can never do too much drawing. (Tintoretto) gr

Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riato, but good drawing can
only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights
without sleep. (Tintoretto) gr

It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful. (Titian) gr

Do not mourn the loss of lead from a pencil; / Rather, rejoice in the mark it has
made. (unknown) gr

His sketches are so crude that his pencil strokes show more force than judgment and
seem to have been made by chance. [on Tintoretto] (Giorgio Vasari) gr

I have always tended to start with drawings. It's a very ancient, very normal way
of doing it... (Deon Venter) ba

Drawing is the probity of art. (J. Alden Weir) jb

Open your eyes and draw. Look, look, look. (George Weymouth) df

Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his
'Boating Party'. (Albert Wolff) gr

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Dreams

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried
them on their own bootstraps. (Peter Abrahams) ba

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the
promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall
unveil. (James Allen) rg

The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the
invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are
nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. (James Allen) ka

Dreams are the seedlings of realities. (James Allen) lc

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
(Francis Bacon) df

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. (Djuna Barnes) js

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-
conscious manipulation. (Sister Wendy Beckett) mb

I awoke and yet continued to dream... (Max Beckmann) df

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
(William Blake) js

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. (Erma
Bombeck) em

Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. (Andre Breton) df

There is at the back of every artist's mind... the landscape of his dreams.; the
strange flora and fauna of his own secret planet; the sort of thing he likes to
think about. This general atmosphere... governs all his creations, however varied.
(G. K. Chesterton) df

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the
poet's equal there. (E. M. Cioran) js

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a
caress. (Leonard Cohen) js

A sight to dream of, not to tell! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) nb

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every
night of our lives. (Charles William Dement) bcm

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. (Walt Disney) sl

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt Disney)
sl

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams
offer too little collateral. (Walt Disney) sl

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. (Louise
Driscoll) ab

Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars. (Max
Ehrmann) js

Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anymore about life? (Havelock
Ellis) bcm

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is
presided over by a certain reason, too. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face
reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. (Douglas Everett) rg

You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up. (Peter Frampton) bcm
An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols. (Sigmund Freud)
bcm

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange
goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical,
purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. (Erich Fromm) js

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. We
miss a great deal if we do not understand the language in which they are written...
(Erich Fromm) js

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it... (Paul
Gauguin) gr

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Begin it now. (Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe) dr

I dream my paintings, then I paint my dreams. (Vincent Van Gogh) df

Looking at the stars always makes me dream. (Vincent Van Gogh) ba

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power,

which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a
Shakespeare. (H. F. Hedge) sl

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread,
smokes and trees. (Jean Helion) df

When your dreams tire, they go underground out of kindness and that's where they
stay. (Libby Houston) js

Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, then life is like a broken winged bird
that cannot fly. (Langston Hughes) lc

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood
tomorrow. (Victor Hugo) bcm

It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early. (Tove Jansson)
rg

But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer. (Samuel
Johnson) jb

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in

concert. (Samuel Johnson) bcm

Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole
region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is
a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind. (Paul Klee) ba

There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are dreams
and dreams allow us possibility. (Jeffrey David Lang) sl

It may be that those who do most, dream most. (Stephen Leacock) ba

You may say I'm a dreamer, / But I'm not the only one. (John Lennon) rg

I work to create worlds where my dreams and whimsy may be played out. (Janet
Leszczynski) df
What I dream of is an art of balance. (Henri Matisse) js

It is not a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to

dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a
disaster to have no ideal to capture. (Dr. Benjamin Mays) js

While dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is in
a broader sense the play with dreams. (Friedrich Nietzsche) js

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring
back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. (Anais Nin) js

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. (Marsha
Norman) sl

All that we see or seem / Is but a dream / within a dream. (Edgar Allan Poe) gr

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream
only by night. (Edgar Allan Poe) vw

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland. (Howard Pyle) sl

A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. (Zadok Rabinwitz) js

Dream big for you can't stuff a great life into a small dream. (Barb Rees) rg

We must build our dreams and live our dreams. (Alice Rich) ba

What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? (Jill Robinson) rg

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. (Theodore Roosevelt) sl

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller) sl

The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream. (William
Shakespeare) sl

Dreams are toys. Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously, I will be squared by
this. (William Shakespeare) js

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say Why
not? (George Bernard Shaw) sl

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes
the goal. (Ralph Vaull Starr) js

Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. (Roger Starr) js

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? (Alfred, Lord
Tennyson) nb

Dreams are the touchstones of our character. (Henry David Thoreau) js

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
(Henry David Thoreau) js

Dream big dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.
(Brian Tracy) hh
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped
possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. (Dr. Dale E. Turner) js

If it can be well enough dreamed; it can be easily enough done. (unknown) rg

You got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come
true? (unknown) js

Old dreams chase away new ones. (unknown) js

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have
them. (John Updike) sl

Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em. (Mary Webb) js

Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for. (Travis
White) js

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that
he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. (Oscar Wilde) sl

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamer of dreams. (Willy Wonka) ph

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly
surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his
dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician... because it offers no security,
it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future." (Henry M.
Wriston) js

In dreams begins responsibility. (William Butler Yeats) js

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Drunkenness

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may whet my mind and say something
clever. (Aristophanes) gr

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
(Nancy Astor) nb

The greater the fool in the pencil more blest, And when they are drunk they always
paint best. (William Blake) dd

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them
when I was drunk. (Richard Burton) bcm

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you
won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
(Anton Chekhov) bcm

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English
drunkard made the rolling English road. (G. K. Chesterton) nb

No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness or so good as drink. (G.

K. Chesterton) gr

To Ibn Saud when he heard that the king's religion forbade smoking and alcohol: "I
must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking
cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be during all
meals and in the intervals between them." (Winston Churchill) jb

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or
the will. (David Crosby) ba

An American Monkey after getting drunk on brandy would never touch it again, and
thus is much wiser than most men. (Charles Darwin) bcm

Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why: / Drink! for you know not why you
go, nor where. (Edward Fitzgerald) nb

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. (Andre Gide) nb

The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
(Robert Henri) am

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange
its functions? (Hippocrates) jb

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and,
although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.
(Winslow Homer) jb

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate
the mystical faculties of human nature. (William James) jb

If 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human
experience. (William James) nb

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. (Samuel Johnson) jb

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for
a living. (Jean Kerr) jb

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
(Sinclair Lewis) js

Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
(Don Marquis) gr

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. (Dean Martin) gr

Write first, drink later. (Patrick McGrath) sl

Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you
lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you. (Michael Moriarty) ab

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a
certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. (Friedrich
Nietzsche) df

Drunkenness... spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. (William
Penn) nb

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the
man. (proverb) jb
The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great
interest. (Wilhelm Reich) jb

No, thank you, I was born intoxicated. (George William Russell) nb

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. (Seneca) nb

Let's go and get drunk on light again it has the power to console. (Georges
Seurat) df

It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may
be said to be an equivocator with lechery. (William Shakespeare) jb

I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. (George Bernard Shaw) jb

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles,
myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
(James Taylor) ba

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. (Dylan Thomas)
jb

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
(Henry David Thoreau) js

Of course one should not drink much, but often. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) sl

Imaginary good is boring. Real good is always new, marvelous, and intoxicating.
(Simone Weil) ka

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Earth

Earth, receive an honoured guest: / William Yeats is laid to rest. / Let the Irish
vessel lie / Emptied of its poetry. (W. H. Auden) rg

I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the
planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up,
to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it
together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my
work. (Robert Bateman) sl

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only
legitimate hope of survival. (Wendell Berry) js

The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind
stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a
hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too. (Hal
Borland) tm

Earth's crammed into heaven. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) js

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will
endure as long as life lasts. (Rachel Carson) sl

For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. (Titus Lucretius Carus)
bcm
This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground.
(Kalpana Chawla) ka

I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the
world. (Eugene V. Debs) js

Earth cannot escape heaven, flee it by going up, or flee it by going down; heaven
still invades the earth, energizes it, makes it sacred. (Meister Johann Eckhart) sl

A few moments before the sun sets, the dark Earth shadow begins to rise in the
east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward onto
the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I could
sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet... (James Elkins) gr

Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

Asking and wondering, from where did this planet that we inhabit come? (Eduardo
Galeano) lp

Despite the folly of all our mistakes and all of our utopian conceits, and the
lateness of the hour... The tide goes out. The tide comes in again. The world is
not coming to an end. (Terry Glavin) ab

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to
know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is
close to us in spirit this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe) js

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
(Stephen Hawking) js

But did thee feel the earth move? (Ernest Hemingway) nb

Go out, go out I beg of you. And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle
of the earth. With all the wonder of a child. (Enda Jaques) tm

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is. (Robinson Jeffers) tm

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or

radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. (Aldo Leopold) alb

The world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty, the beauty of speed.
(Filippo Marinetti) ba

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. (Marshall McLuhan) js

My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.

(Michelangelo) js

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein each other like,
more than on Earth is thought? (John Milton) ba

My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. (astronaut Edgar Mitchell) js

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with
continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and
shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
(John Muir) jh
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents
and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. (John Muir) jh

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting. (Robert
Rauschenberg) df

You are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the earth
belongs to no one. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) js

Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! (Henry
David Thoreau) ae

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E. B.
White) sh

Sometimes a painting is plea to the viewer to care to care as deeply as the

artist about the earth and its inhabitants. (Rachel Rubin Wolf) gr

The majesty of the earth gets my blood circulating that's good stuff. (William
Woodward) ba

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Eccentricity

To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't
think one comes without the other. (Drew Barrymore) de

Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity of

purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the
commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Cecil Beaton) de

I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I

hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open
doors. (Ingmar Bergman) ka

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work
will go. (Nicolas Cage) de

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced
to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in
the lotus position in front of them. (Prince Charles) js

What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable

man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of
such a nobody. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
(Nikos Kazantzakis) bcm

I always was a rebel... but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...
and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am
not. (John Lennon) vw

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able
to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. (Eric Maisel) jb

I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at least
reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
(Michelangelo) jb

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded;
and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the
amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. (John Stuart
Mill) sl

I was so upset yesterday that I made the blunder of throwing myself in the water.
Fortunately, there were no bad results. (Claude Monet) rg

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. (Malcolm Muggeridge) de

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like
people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the
irrational. (John Muir) ba

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a 'mad
clown'. (Vaslav Nijinsky) ba

Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world. (Kathleen Norris) de

Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or
is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all that
is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods of mind exalted
at the expense of the general intellect. (Edgar Allan Poe) de

We saw Tom come almost at a run over the Joe Lake Portage. Canoe over his head.
Throwing his canoe into the water he seized his paddle like a mad man to our wharf
here he pulled up his canoe in haste and up into our cabin. [on Tom Thomson] (Mark
Robinson) js
Let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a
good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to
take it on. I love them all. (Charles Saatchi) js

The man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because
genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and
vagaries of the crowd. (Dame Edith Sitwell) js

I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day
reality of things was unbearably flat. (Sharon Stone) de

Say Mark... you know just what I want, three trees... Black spruce rough cold
looking trees you know what I mean. Trees against a cold green grey northern sky
where can I get them at once? [to Mark Robinson] (Tom Thomson) js

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. (Mark Twain) ka

Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. (unknown) bcm

I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. (Tom Waits) de

Creativity is at the heart of eccentricity. (David Weeks) de

Eccentric people have these happy obsessive preoccupations, and a wonderful,

unusual sense of humor, and this gives them a significant meaning in life. And they
are far healthier than most people because of that. (David Weeks) de

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. (Robin Williams)
jb
Being different, being against the grain of society, is the greatest thing in the
world. (Elijah Wood) de

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Editing

Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be
economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh
is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak. (Henry
Brooks Adams) bcm

Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? (Fred Allen) nb

I dare not alter these things; they come to me from above. (Alfred Austin) nb

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
(Saul Bellow) bcm

Of every four words I write, I strike out three. (Nicolas Boileau) bcm

There is no great writing, only great rewriting. (Louis D. Brandeis) ab

In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains
around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as
clear and understandable as possible. (Gerald Brommer) ba

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of ever being
read. (Winston Churchill) sj

An erasure is a creative mark. (Melanie Circle) df

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (T. S. Eliot) ap

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot
better, a little better. (T. S. Eliot) bcm

Most editors are failed writers but so are most writers. (T. S. Eliot) bcm

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because
you have omitted every word that he can spare. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) bcm

My paintings are made up of what remains after eliminating everything unwanted.

(Alan Feltus) df

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end:
requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the
faults of the first. (Benjamin Franklin) bcm

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would
offend nobody, there would be very little printed. (Benjamin Franklin) bcm

Cute little babies that fall out of swings These are a few of my favourite
things. (Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music") sl

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human
bladder. (Alfred Hitchcock) ab
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a
second reading. (Horace) em

Every good artist has a good eraser. (Skip Van Lenten) svl

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. (J.

Russel Lynes) bcm

The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely.
The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad spelling
of God. (H. L. Mencken) sl

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it
shorter. (Blaise Pascal) sh

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. (Auguste Rodin) ab

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
(Adlai Stevenson) nb

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Education

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Joseph

Addison) bcm

A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or

allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will bring
forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-seeds
will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. (James Allen) ka

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle) js

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
(Aristotle) bcm

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without

accepting it. (Aristotle) em

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. (W. H. Auden) jb

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put
blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-
disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare Bearden) df

In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary

for a kind of enchanter to appear. (Joseph Beuys) df

Education is the movement from darkness to light. (Allan Bloom) js

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) ap

The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy... The
idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's
contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say. (Christian
Boltanski) df

When elementary schools include art programs in the curriculum, children do better
with math. (Kelly Borsheim) ba

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose
soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as
weeds among rocks. (Charlotte Bronte) js

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave. (Henry Peter Brougham) em

For education does not give only knowledge, but taste: it qualifies the feelings as
well as the judgment. (Joyce Carey) jb

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take
less trouble about learning. (G. K. Chesterton) gr

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to

another. (G. K. Chesterton) bcm

I began my education at a very early age in fact, right after I left college.
(Winston Churchill) bcm

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
(John Ciardi) ap

Educated minds seem to be boggled by the need to be original. If they want to be

painters most of them have to buckle down and learn to paint after graduation.
(Margot Clayton) ba

People come with preconceived notions about looking at art, and unless they decide
to investigate further and learn something, they'll go away with the same notions
they came with. (Patricia Cole-Ferullo) sl

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed. (John

Constable) df

I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely
individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own
inspiration and his own study of past tradition. (Gustave Courbet) jb

I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all. (Noel
Coward) nb

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually

asking questions. (Bishop Creighton) ka

"Learning to paint" is probably the worst thing that can happen to an artist.
(Warren Criswell) ab

There is no education like adversity. (Benjamin Disraeli) sl

Teach me to hear the mermaids singing. (John Donne) js

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory,
preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. (Fyodor
Dostoevski) sg

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to
train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations
of others. (Tryon Edwards) bcm
It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet
entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry... It is a very grave mistake to
think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of
coercion and a sense of duty. (Albert Einstein) lp

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual. (Albert Einstein) bcm

The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many
facts, but the training of the mind to think of something that cannot be learned
from textbooks. (Albert Einstein) bcm

Years of educational treatment have convinced us that learning is, and can only be,
the result of teaching. We grow up into adults who insist that our children
"receive" an education. We trust neither ourselves nor our children. (Aaron Falbel)
lp

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because
it was generally believed to be irrelevant. (Eric Fischl) jb

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
(Anatole France) em

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
(Benjamin Franklin) em

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for
the education of all adults of every age? (Erich Fromm) bcm

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or
your self-confidence. (Robert Frost) gr

I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit to a

wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered that
the past was neither quiet nor mute. (Eduardo Galeano) lp

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
(Galileo) em

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and

dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for
four years. (Robert Genn) sg

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts:
grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy,
theory of design, arithmetic. (Lorenzo Ghiberti) tm

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and
kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. (Kahlil
Gibran) em

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it

teaches me things. (Vincent Van Gogh) df

In a certain way I am glad I have not learned painting. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. (Vincent
Van Gogh) df

Something I tell my students is to read (a text) once; then if you still have
problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and
read it a third time... and you might get something out of it. (Felix Gonzalez-
Torres) df

The making of an artist is more than the training of hands; it's the training of
the eye, the ear, and the listening heart. (William Gough) sl

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they
draw. (Robert Henri) df

Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life studies
and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure. They
have acquired the ability to copy. (Robert Henri) df

All education must be self-education. (Robert Henri) rg

Self-education only produces expressions of self. (Robert Henri) gr

Watching other people work, each following their own muse, is a great way to learn.
(Steve Hovland) ba

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of

teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite
overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (Ivan Illich) bcm

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things the power to
tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the
good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. (Samuel Johnson) bcm

Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil.
(Franklin P. Jones) js

Art hath an enemy called ignorance. (Ben Jonson) df

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. (S ren Kierkegaard) js

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the pupil are
located in the same individual. (Arthur Koestler) df

Education is... doing anything that changes you. (George B. Leonard) js

An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.
(William Lethaby) df

The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be
made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be
'undemocratic.' (C. S. Lewis) js

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to

follow. (John Lubbock) bcm

A formal education in the arts can be like a physical injury sustained early in
life it keeps flaring up the rest of your days and you sometimes find yourself
limping where once your gait was steady. (Mary Madsen) ba

Children of any age flourish with options. Art should be mandatory at all ages.
(Donna Jo Massie) ka

A college degree has become one more thing for us to acquire, rather than a passion
for us to pursue. (Leon McGinnis) lp

Much of education now seems to be founded on expediency rather than excellence.

(Pete McMartin) ba

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizner) js

When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and
then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work
like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art
was going to be. (Bruce Nauman) gr
A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of art.
This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more about
art from that than I did in school. (Louise Nevelson) df

I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is
not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty the mistakes and dead ends that
artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn
and apply. (Isamu Noguchi) df

Schools and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I
want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to
and say what I want to when I painted... (Georgia O'Keeffe) jb

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. (Perelman)
ap

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. (Laurence

J. Peter) vw

But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned? / I sat in their chairs and my
synapses burned. (Phish) tc

The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If
only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in
Lascaux and Altimira! (Pablo Picasso) df

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. (Chinese proverb) sh

I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.
[1905] (Howard Pyle) rg

I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a

trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the
foundation of education. (Ronald Reagan) sl

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and
above all, going to the Louvre. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) jb

The only way to understand painting is to go and look at it. And if out of a
million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to
justify museums. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) jb

Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of
insubordination on the part of the taught. (Agnes Repplier) lp
Lessons in anything can be dangerous to us, for the weekly guilt can become
addictive. We can come to believe that we deserve scorn, and that we really can
profit from being told repeatedly how to do it... Gradually we lose our child-like
enthusiasm... and substitute instead an intense yearning to do it "right" for the
teacher. (Eloise Ristad) lp

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a
liberal arts education provides. (Felix G. Rohatyn) js

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning

is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle
process all begins. (Jim Rohn) hh

Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
(Jim Rohn) hh

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right
things, but enjoy them; not merely be industrious, but love industry; not merely
learn, but love knowledge; not merely be pure, but love purity; not merely be just,
but hunger and thirst after justice. (John Ruskin) js

Education can train, but not create, intelligence. (Edward McChesney Sait) js

Not all is taught in one school. (Hawaiian saying) df

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own
education. (Sir Walter Scott) js

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art
into pedantry. Hence University education. (George Bernard Shaw) js

My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my

paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.
(Burton Silverman) rg

Art for kids offers exercise for the right brain, and it shows there are different
ways to arrive at a solution to a problem... (Helen Ormiston Simpson) df

I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me. (Slogan of the Free
Speech Movement, 1964) js

Learning is never aversive usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure

to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical
activities. (Frank Smith) lp

I've always loved graffiti, the straightforwardness of it, even if its subject
matter is narrow and gross. Its directness has always thrilled me impulse to
image with no barriers in between, especially those imposed by an 'education.'
(Richard Stine) df

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which
things relate to one another. (Wayne Thiebaud) df

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with
my eyes hanging out. (Dylan Thomas) ka

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering
brook. (Henry David Thoreau) js
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-
confidence you will have. (Brian Tracy) hh

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain) ab

Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after they
get out. (Mark Twain) js

If people care as much about education as they say they do, why aren't they willing
to pay teachers as much as garbage collectors? (Author unknown) sl

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. (Leonardo da Vinci) tm

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde) sh

Education is the mother of leadership. (Wendell L. Willkie) js

One must always be prepared to learn something totally new. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
gr

If the learning process destroys the excitement, the involvement, the ability to
respond, then we lose by that learning. (Gordon J. Wootton) vm

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler
Yeats) js

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Efficiency

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at
all. (Peter Drucker) sg

Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three times
as fast. (Peter Drucker) em

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. (David Dunham) js

Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. (Dwight D. Eisenhower)

vw

What you're doing is okay just do it more efficiently. (Jack Hambleton) rg

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is to eliminate obstacles
and smooth the way for it. (Kimon Nicolaides) js

If you want to develop your creativity, establish regular work habits. Allow time
for the incubation of ideas, and adhere to your individual rhythm. Violations of
this rhythm can retard your creative efficiency. (Eugene Raudsepp) js

You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance

except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time
effectively. (Brian Tracy) hh

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving
things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
(Lin Yutang) js
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Effort

Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. (James
Allen) ka

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring
something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to
be able to take something out. (Mikhail Baryshnikov) sl

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away
all obstacles. (Claude M. Bristol) js

You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
(William F. Buckley-Jr.) vw

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work,
patience, love, and self-sacrifice. (John Burroughs) ka

We need to put in effort because we want to do it; because it is our privilege and
joy to learn, to test ourselves, experiment and experience. (Leanne Cadden) ba

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. (Lydia M.
Child) vw

A world where nothing is had for nothing. (Arthur Hugh Clough) nb

The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning. (Doug
Dawson) ba

It's never crowded along the extra mile. (Wayne Dyer) hw

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on
the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. (Albert Einstein)
bcm

For us it is just the trying: all the rest is not our business. (T. S. Eliot) df

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js

Ultimately, you want a painting to look effortless, not overworked. (Gay

Faulkenberry) ka

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller) js

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one. (Robert Genn)
to

If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I
wouldn't have to paint at all. (Alberto Giacometti) df

Do whatever you do intensely. (Robert Henri) am

It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take
an interest in my efforts. (Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel) ka

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. (Napoleon
Hill) js

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. (Oliver Wendell
Holmes) js

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from
the author's soul. (Aldous Huxley) pd

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. (Samuel

Johnson) js

When you start coasting, there is only one way to go, and that is downhill. (Dr.
Randy Kerry) sl

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you
are the least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something
sitting down. (Charles F. Kettering) js

Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success
also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little
bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference. (Ralph Marston) js

The artist begins with a vision a creative operation requiring an effort. (Henri
Matisse) sr

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so

wonderful after all. (Michelangelo) js

I hope that something will come out of so much effort... (Claude Monet) ba

As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure upon
individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by dint of hard
work. (Anna Pavlova) nb

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is
a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it. (Pablo Picasso) sr

Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more. (Carter Ratcliff) rg

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt) js

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
(George Santayana) em

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount
Olympus. (Wayne Thiebaud) gr

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one

sees or appreciates. (Brian Tracy) hh

Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen. (Ken
Venturi) df

Some people approach artmaking like the San Diego Chargers approach Football, once
they know they are going to get paid, effort goes out the window. (Kim Wyatt) rg

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Ego
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth
but on his own side. (Joseph Addison) lp

Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-

transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the
acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic. (Hannah Arendt) df

One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos.
In some cases, it's the only difference. (Charles Atlas) tm

All that we are not stares back at what we are. (W. H. Auden) bcm

I've often felt my ego was like a layer cake layers of high ego and low ego
alternating endlessly... I need approbation for both layers of the cake. (Janet
Badger) ab

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed
to discover they are not it. (Bernard Bailey) js

Generally, the participants with the largest egos get the least out of a workshop.
(Jacqueline Baldini) ba

Nothing we do is separate from the functioning entity we call our selves.

(Nicoletta Baumeister) ab

The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, "I've gotta
be Me,"] and transcend himself as he makes judgements. (Romare Bearden) df

At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry. [sign at House of Coffee and Tea,
Tucson, Arizona] (Bentley's) sh

Ego, just a three-letter word and yet so interesting. If we did not have an ego, we
would be lost. Feeding it too much we would also be lost. (Lida van Bers) ab

An egotist is a person of low taste more interested in himself than in me.

(Ambrose Bierce) sl

I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands. (Louise Bourgeois) df

All my compatriots are asses compared to me. (Paul Cezanne) bb

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know
that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature
consideration. (Cezanne to his mother) ba

Creativity in general may require a certain disarmament of the ego. (Warren

Criswell) ka

When I paint, the ocean roars. Others merely paddle in their bath. (Salvador Dali)
mb

Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player. (Miles Davis) bcm

I gotta be me. (Sammy Davis-Jr.) gr

Ego is responsible for clouding the mind on the conscious level. It is far more
difficult to access that part of oneself where the creative thought begins when one
is attached to a certain outcome, a certain standard. (Carolynn Doan) ka
To see, one must deny the ego and humble himself in front of mother nature.
(Charles Duback) df

Self-worth comes from one thing thinking that you are worthy. (Wayne Dyer) hw

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve

myself. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset) em

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to
accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. [to high school grads]
(Bill Gates) ll

I am a man for whom the outside world exists. (Theophile Gautier) nb

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater
than he is. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) em

I am willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong. (Samuel
Goldwyn) nb

Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-
comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. (Lama Govinda) jm

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now when? (Hillel) js

I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of
model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through
fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
(Damien Hirst) mb

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the

nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that
history has yet seen. (Ellen Key) js

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. (Rudyard Kipling) bcm

Nothing can touch me now I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me! (Jeff Koons) mb

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in

that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. (John
Lennon) js

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. (Roy Lichtenstein) sl

The average person thinks he isn't. (Father Larry Lorenzoni) ap

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed. (David Louis)
ab

I left my ego at the door of his classroom when I entered, and left with a
portfolio of drawings I still can't believe I produced. [on her Drawing 101
teacher] (Mary Madsen) ba

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am. (Eric Maisel) ka

An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors:

carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. (Eric Maisel) jb
I wanted to see what other people see when they see me. People seem to like me, so
I wanted to see if I could like me. (Rocco Mirro) df

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of
agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my
plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or
myself. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) jb

For those who demonstrate, a very big price is paid in educational benefits if
personal style, running commentary and facile brushwork feeds an ego while closing
doors to unique discoveries. (Dick Nelson) ba

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. (Friedrich Nietzsche) gr

The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about it...
a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.
(Georgia O'Keeffe) df

I can beat myself on the chest, rise up proudly; this is me, me, me. [on
exhibiting] (Egbert Oudendag) rg

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. (J. Petit-Senn) js

Art is coming face to face with yourself. (Jackson Pollock) gr

Self-love seems so often unrequited. (Anthony Powell) nb

Artists have complicated egos. They have to be a fair size to even do what they do,
yet they are often as fragile as they are large. (Andrea Pratt) ba

I'm angry at how school produces submissive students with battered egos. Most
students have no idea of the true joys of learning, and of how much they can
actually achieve on their own. (Adam Robinson) lp

The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man who
thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. (Francois de La
Rochefoucauld) em

When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. (John Ruskin)
ap

My work is a 'concrete' of that which preceded language and which language is all
about... to make a 'talisman,' to render myself proof from whatever I feel could
interfere with the continuation of my personality and volition. (Michael Sandle) df

I am wedded to who I am. (Burton Silverman) rg

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. (Spock) ap

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. (Adlai Stevenson) gr

Ego is the memory and the use of information and the cultivating of will no real
creativity is possible within its boundaries. The passion and the compassion is
unbelievably deeper than what our subconscious id could ever hold. (Joseph Tany) ab

The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. (Paul Valery)
ka
If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings
and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. (Andy Warhol) sl

As far as painting is concerned there is only Degas and myself. (James Abbot
McNeill Whistler) jb

I am completely focused on my Art. If this makes me self-indulgent, then self-

indulgent I am. No one but me can create what I'm creating. (Bruce Wilcox) jb

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. (Oscar Wilde)
nb

How, on our necessary islands of ego, do we find challenging and yet comforting
companionship? The child in us can find it. (Mona Youssef) ab

We should stop pandering to our sensitive egos and be strong men and women whose
only desire is to make ever better, more beautiful art, knowing full well that we
all fall short of the glory of God. (Gertjan Zwiggelaar) rg

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Emotion

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires
others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened
thoroughly. (Meher Baba) trm

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes
their variety from light. (Francis Bacon) gr

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they
naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely
is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest
paintings. (Francis Bacon) jb

I don't bother with my negative emotions. I don't trust them; I don't listen to
them. (Theresa Bayer) ba

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does,
and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
(Ingmar Bergman) bcm

Agonies thrilled through me as if my blood were running ice cold in my veins. I

stopped composing. My mind became feebler as my feelings grew more intense. (Hector
Berlioz) ba

All painting should be emotional painting. (Judi Betts) df

The state of our heart at the moment of applying paint to canvas gets into the mix
somehow. What our audience actually 'gets' when they regard our work is simply how
we felt while we were doing it. (Eleanor Blair) ba

Draw what you see; paint what you feel. (Francis Boag) df

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized
his emotions. (David Borenstein) js

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness. (Rex Brandt) df

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater.
Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you
rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness? (Ben Brantley) bcm

Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added on

nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower. (Georges Braque) jb

Many artists like to rush forward thinking that their pure "emotions" are more
important on the paper than good proportions... eventually having to return into
clumsy areas and correct, correct, correct. That's when the freshness disappears.
(Harley Brown) ab

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture
fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the
contemplation of a work of art. (John F. Carlson) sj

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. (Paul Cezanne) tm

If the emotion is strong enough, so is the painting. Orgasmic painting? I think, if

truth be told, we all know what that is. (Jane Champagne) ba

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings. (Jean-Baptiste-
Simeon Chardin) df

Our full range of emotions is our palette with which we bring color to our lives.
(Anne Copeland) ab

Never lose the first impression which has moved you. (Camille Corot) tm

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of
feeling. (Claude Debussy) ba

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder;
outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. [appeal made to artists] (Denis
Diderot) sr

A painting is good not because it looks like something but rather because it feels
like something. (Phil Dike) df

Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion,

mood, violence, madness. (Jean Dubuffet) jb

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than reason by
which men are moved. (Irwin Edman) bcm

Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way.
(Eight-year-old) rr

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the

emotion. (T. S. Eliot) df

In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, / Undisciplined squads of emotion.

(T. S. Eliot) bcm

In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) js

What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's response is always right. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) bcm
I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking. (Joanna
Field) rg

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. (Zelda
Fitzgerald) bcm

If the artist sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting
what he sees before him. (Caspar David Friedrich) tm

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may
have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. (Lucian Freud) jb

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, 'he feels deeply, he feels
tenderly.' (Vincent Van Gogh) tm

The feeling for things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling
for the picture. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb

The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody. (Lama Govinda)
jm

Paint from your soul. Paint what touches your heart and paint it in a way that
lifts your spirit. Then not only will you be sharing a part of yourself with
others, you will stir the viewer's emotion. This is what people remember not how
cleverly you have painted something... (Susan Harrison-Tustain) ba

You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you
work. (Robert Henri) gr

Once we artists have completed all of our formal art training and mastered our
skills in drawing, composition, color and the rest of the technical foundation
needed for creating good art, it is then important to look inward... we must paint
what we feel. (Sidney Hermel) ba

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They
feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid. (Howard Hodgkin) mb

When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and
makes you giddy. (Ferdinand Hodler) ka

It's important to avoid being controlled by your emotions. You need to be aware of
what you are feeling, but those feelings should not determine what you do. (Steve
Hovland on motivation) ba

Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is

merely a form of emotional masturbation... (Aldous Huxley) js

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms. (Franz Kline) ba

No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. (Kathe Kollwitz)
sl

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life
of feeling. (Suzanne Langer) sl

Art is the objectification of feeling. (Suzanne Langer) sl

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one
good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. (Robert Keith Leavitt) bcm

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but

passion. (Rico Lebrun) jb

It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is a

source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in some
measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human
relationships... (Mervyn Levy) sr

When I feel what I see, I paint what I feel. (Dick Lewis) df

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. (Audre Lorde) js

The mood you see in my paintings was never there. It was superimposed from another
place. (Tom Lynch) ab

The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine
masquerading as a person. (Eric Maisel) jb

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. (Agnes Martin) df

Works of art are made of concept, material... and feeling. (Kenneth Martin) ba

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its
leaves one by one in the common language, but [only] after identifying myself with
it. (Henri Matisse) df

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of
expressing it. (Henri Matisse) df

Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His
road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make
it more so. (Henri Matisse) jb

I feel terrific things when I put a hole through a work. I am really making
doorways and that is something with which I have always been fascinated. (Elza
Mayhew) df

My heart shall be thy garden. (Alice Meynell) nb

The most important thing is to get emotion out of an inert object. (Ronald Miller)
ka

The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and
eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and
line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into
an aesthetic emotion. (David Milne) df

Curves are so emotional. (Piet Mondrian) df

The game is organizing states of feeling. (Robert Motherwell) df

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the
landscape you were feeling as you started the painting. (Sidney Nolan) gr

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. (Michael
Ondaatje) ba
Now and then art gives that particular emotion, ecstasy, which is of so priceless a
quality that there is no standard by which to measure it, one of those rare
emotions which redeem life from monotony, triviality and futility. (Lockie Parker)
sr

The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. (Blaise Pascal) nb

Science strives to achieve unity of fact. Art strives to achieve unity of feeling.
(Stephen Pepper) df

A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of

an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it is
well or ill done it moves the hearts of others. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. (Pablo Picasso) jb

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the
sky, from the earth, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. (Pablo Picasso) rg

I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them. (Jackson Pollock) df

I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. (Marcel Proust) nb

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it. (Howard Pyle) jb

Color is the most emotional element that we, as painters, have. And if it is used
well, color can go a long way toward expressing an artist's intention or enhancing
a mood. (Stephen Quiller) jb

I have a feeling only for shadows. (Odilon Redon) ka

The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true copy
of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a pleasing
effect upon the mind. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr

The intellect is always fooled by the heart. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld) ba

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar,
because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances. (Auguste
Rodin) gr

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of
people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can
communicate these basic human emotions. (Mark Rothko) df

I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as

strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply. (May Sarton) ba

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient
Chinese called "making stone into gold". It is alchemy. (Li Shan) ab

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. (Igor
Stravinsky) ba

The accuracy of the image becomes less important if the feel of the subject can be
emulated. This can be achieved through well-planned composition and a free
application of the medium. (Ken Strong) ab

Light breaks where no sun shines; / Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart /
Push in their tides. (Dylan Thomas) ba

People don't necessarily want to learn from art. They want to connect to it
emotionally. (Aleksander Titovets) ba

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously by means of
certain signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others
are infected by those feelings and experience them. (Leo Tolstoy) df

Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into

feeling. (Leo Tolstoy) tm

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. (Leo Tolstoy)
ba

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent

of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself. (Brian
Tracy) hh

What tasks the man did set himself in the painting of a white apron with which he
was as much in love as the face of a person. [on Bastien-Lepage] (John H.
Twachtman) jb

When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes,
and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. (Giuseppe Verdi) ba

Art should be independent of all clap-trap should stand alone, and appeal to the
artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely
foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. (James Abbot
McNeill Whistler) gr

I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone
purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations. (Jack White) ba

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without
paying for it. (Oscar Wilde) ka

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness. (Winkelmann) sg

When the emotions are strong... one should paint bamboo; in a light mood one should
paint the orchid. (Chueh Yin) gr

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Encouragement

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through
encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a
man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. (George Matthew Adams) vw

To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which
have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. (Phillip Brooks) bcm

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders
and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a
new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sg

When you bend to lift up be gentle allow that they [artists] are to be kings
and queens of their own solitudes. (Robert Genn) jb

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) bcm

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel
like giving up! (Max Liebermann) gr

It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of

narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate. (Eric Maisel) ba

My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and

I'll always be grateful to them for that. (Graham Nash) ba

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. (Greek proverb) lc

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it

well. (George Santayana) ba

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger
thing well, too. (Joseph Storey) sl

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore
me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. (William A.
Ward) sh

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his
country. (George Washington) js

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Energy

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, "Relax!" (Elias Canetti) la

The world belongs to the energetic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) fb

Talk therapy is a good way to tap your deep energies. (Steve Hovland) ba

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability
based on the play of energies. (Paul Klee) df

When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source of
energy. Once you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do
whatever you need. You never get tired, and you do everything with a sense of joy.
It's actually effortless it's a flow. (Dennis Kucinich) ae

I work in bursts of energy... like mad fires let loose into nervous breakdowns. And
it affected everyone in my life. Perhaps it was God's design to give me a wife who
was trained as a psychiatric nurse. (Alfredo Liongoren) df

For a long time, I could not tame the energy and dreaded it. (Alfredo Liongoren) df

Energy and perseverance can fit a man for almost any kind of position. (Theodore F.
Merseles) lc

A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of
the subject it may represent. (Henry Moore) df

We perceive abstraction and figuration as contradictory. In contradiction lies

energy most things that are important come in part out of contradiction.
(Catherine Murphy) df

Don't wait for what you need put in the energy to create what you need. (David
Oleski) ka

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Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire. (George Matthew Adams) lc

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. (Sir Edward Victor Appleton) bcm

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. (H. W.
Arnold) sl

Enthusiasm moves the world. (Arthur James Balfour) sl

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be
insane on proper occasions. (Henry Ward Beecher) sl

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who
has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. (Edward B. Butler) sl

Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving

surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm (from the Greek, "filled with God")
is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself. (Julia Cameron) bl

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your

enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill) ab

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette) sj

Enthusiasm reflects confidence, spreads good cheers, raises morale, inspires

associates, arouses loyalty, and laughs at adversity... it is beyond price. (Allan
Cox) lc

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. (Benjamin

Disraeli) sl

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the

understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of
enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) lc

People who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes) bcm

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Anatole France)

bcm

I intend for my paintings to reflect an enthusiastic response to the world around

me perhaps, more simply stated, a celebration of being. (Tom Francesconi) ka

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a

growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically. (Robert Genn) jb

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life. (Vincent Van Gogh) tm

We lived in a continuous blaze of enthusiasm... Above all we loved this country and
loved exploring and painting it... (Lawren Harris) gr

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.
(Conrad Hilton) sl

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all
we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles
Kingsley) dr

I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. (Robert Lowell) ka

Preliminary pencil sketches can diminish our enthusiasm to paint. (Tom Lynch) ab

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. (William McFee) sl

Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one mad.
I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it. (Claude Monet
as a young painter) ab

I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like 65
canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite out
of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases... (Claude Monet to Alice
Monet) ba

It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything. (John Muir) jh

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and
accomplishment. (Norman Vincent Peale) sl

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either
unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the
studio, but not impossible. (Walter J. Phillips) ka

When we are enthusiastic we are intoxicated with passion rooted in our true selves
and it flows into all we do. (Linda Saccoccio) ba

If variety is what it takes to peek and maintain one's enthusiasm, so be it. (Sandy
Sandy) ka

A person can succeed at anything for which there is enthusiasm. (Charles M. Schwab)
lc

Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. (Gail Sher) js

Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm. (Arnold J. Toynbee) lc

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. (Tuckerman) vw

Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps, and the common cold, is highly contagious. (Emory
Ward) lc

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Environment
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your
heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest
thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly
environment; of these, if you but remain true to them your world will at last be
built. (James Allen) ka

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his
fathers but borrowed from his children. (John James Audubon) ae

The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea

becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting. (Gerald Brommer) gr

The world either breaks or hardens the heart. (Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort)
bcm

For... first artists, the native people, art was not only of a functional nature,
but also linked to their concepts of religion and the relationship of man to his
environment. (James J. Kurtz) jb

It is impossible for me to make a painting which has no reference to the powerful

environment in which I live. (Peter Lanyon) df

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. (Marshall

McLuhan) sl

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be
beautiful. (William Morris) tm

Connection with uncorrupted nature is a rare and endangered experience in today's

expanding urban environment. (Rebecca Perehudoff) jb

All my paintings are direct responses to my environment... the image before me does
not have to be dramatic; an intimate view of wildflowers gets the same attention as
a spectacular sunset. (Jim Petty) ka

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Eroticism

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create? (Pietro
Aretino) bcm

What is erotic, like taste in art, is subjective. (Kelly Borsheim) ka

Obscenity is such a tiny kingdom that a single tour covers it completely. (Heywood
Broun) bcm

Sneaky sex. Gets in everything these days. Why you can't even use greasy, juicy
paint without having some inappropriate suggestiveness come up. (Karen Fitzgerald)
jb

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them
irrespective of subject matter. (Lucian Freud) jb

Why can't we all just acknowledge that "nature" that is, "sex" or "erotic"
images, which are really just "attracters" are everywhere. Of course a flower looks
like what it looks like that's what it is to a bee. (Sara Genn) jb
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic
emotion... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer
art. (Remy de Gourmont) js

Even the most innocent of images can send subliminal messages [of an erotic
nature]. (Julie Rodriguez Jones) ba

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. (Gloria Leonard) ap

All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of
erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying
down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her. (Adolf Loos) df

Schiele's eroticism... expresses human bondage and is to be understood as a burden

that is painful to bear. (Erwin Mitsch on Egon Schiele) jb

The erotic aspect of my art is not pornography but magic, animation and evocation.
My figuration makes no references to figurative art or to pop art, but arises
simply because I view this world from inside a human figure and tend to feel
affinity with things which appear human. (Victor Newsome) df

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than

sit on its ass in a museum. (Claes Oldenburg) br

The difference between eroticism and pornography is one of art. (Andre Salvet) df

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But
they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
(Egon Schiele) jb

I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-

figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic of space, primitive sex
forms, the sensual and erotic, disconcerting contours, the things of life. (William
Scott) df

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness as well as the most refined form
of sexual pleasure consists in going against the grain of one's sex. (Susan
Sontag) js

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the "straight" public sense in which

something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.
(Susan Sontag) js

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Evolution

I realized my progress as an artist was an evolution, a kind of natural selection

in a highly competitive environment, as unpleasantly Darwinian as any endangered
bee-eater. (Joseph P. Blodgett) rg

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct
organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing
ourselves, not things that enslave us. (Guy Debord) sl

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred
years ago is no longer so today. (Alberto Giacometti) jb

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process. (Mary Beth
McKenzie) ab

I like a painting to evolve. I don't like going through the motions to reach a
predictable end. (Amanda McLean) ba

The whole sequence of evolution seems somehow to correspond to continued births,

rebirths, and new births. (Otto Rank) ka

The artist is an educator of artists of the future... who are able to understand
and in the process of understanding perform unexpected the best evolutions.
(Saul Steinberg) sl

I need a lot of change. I can't stop at one level. I just keep on evolving. (Martha
Sturdy) ba

Evolution of the art reflects the evolution of the person. After dramatic
developments in the artist's life, the art will reflect the changes. (unknown) jb

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Excellence

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. (Shana Alexander) bcm

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent
of my power and dominion. (Alexander the Great) dr

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in
the excellence of the work he produces. (St. Thomas Aquinas) sl

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly. (Aristotle) ab

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
(Aristotle) sh

Prospects do not buy how good you are at what you do. They buy how good you are at
who you are. (Harry Beckwith) sl

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible

alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding;
striving for perfection in practically anything is both neurotic and futile.
(Edwin Bliss) sl

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. (Ashleigh Brilliant)
sl

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done. (Julia Cameron) sj

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. (Earl of Chesterfield) nb

Just as good, isn't. (Julia Child) dr

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as

long as life. [of Sweden, 1629-1689] (Queen Christina) bcm

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: / Who would search for pearls must dive
below. (John Dryden) sh
Encouraging excellence and work of rare beauty... gives the creator a measure of
trade security since excellence cannot be copied cheaply. This also elevates the
craftsperson of unskilled labour to artisan. (Lloyd Dykk) ba

If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate.
(Eight-year-old) rr

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves
most excellent. (Epictetus) vw

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that
everything afterward savors of anti-climax. (F. Scott Fitzgerald) ba

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon
them. (John W. Gardner) sl

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a
belle. (Lord Lyttelton George) bcm

In art the best is good enough. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) sl

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce weed out
the fault without eradicating the virtue. (Oliver Goldsmith) nb

My parents always told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do
something. They will only know how well it is done. (Nancy Hanks) lc

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to

obtain excellence. (Eric Hoffer) bcm

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again. (A. E. Housman) ab

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is
best. (St. Jerome) pd

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is

not to be purchased at a lesser price. (Samuel Johnson) sl

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables
evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. (John
Keats) jb

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo

painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep
streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here
lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King-Jr.) sl

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken
with painstaking excellence. (Martin Luther King-Jr.) sh

There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is
anything but the second-best. (Doris Lessing) gr

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to

excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. (Vince Lombardi) dr

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is

simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) bcm
More detail doesn't necessarily mean a better painting, it just means more detail.
(Tom Lynch) df

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab
those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity
into bright and shining excellence. (Ralph Marston) js

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you
very often get it. (W. Somerset Maugham) sj

There is no excellency without difficulty. (Ovid) vw

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain
which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.
(Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we

excel in those which can also make use of our defects. (Alexis de Tocqueville) sh

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery of

your work. (Brian Tracy) hh

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. (Brian

Tracy) jb

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit
doing less-than-excellent work. (Thomas J. Watson) sl

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Exhaustion

The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. (Max Beerbohm) jb

I painted until I was exhausted. Then I forced myself to do another and it was the
best thing I've done for weeks. (Joseph P. Blodgett) rg

Better to wear out than rust out. (Bishop Cumberland) js

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) js

Day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. (Ursula Kroeber
Le Guin) bcm
Fatigue makes cowards of us all. (Vince Lombardi) js

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour his greatest fulfillment to all he
holds dear... is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and
lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious. (Vince Lombardi) tmp

No one ever went broke by saying no too often. (Harvey Mackay) js

I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite
stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy... (Claude Monet) ba

I am exhausted... A task like this is possible for a month but for more than two
it's murderous... (Claude Monet painting in Bordighera, Italy) ba
Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the
point of exhaustion. (Friedrich Nietzsche) js

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary... (Edgar Allan Poe)
vw

Everything worth doing is exhausting. (John Polanyi) df

Every seed knows its time all in good time. (Russian proverb) js

The tired spirit is a hungry spirit. (Faith Puleston) ka

For every mountain there is a miracle. (Robert H. Schuller) js

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your
shoe. (Robert W. Service) js

Oh Lord, you give us everything at the price of fatigue! (Leonardo da Vinci) js

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Exhibitions

The pressure of constantly showing work motivates me to paint every day. (Linda
Blondheim) ab

The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming
articles of trade, following as such the unreasoning laws of markets and fashion;
and public and even private patronage is swayed by their tyrannical influence.
[1851] (Prince Albert) jb

My greatest joy is expressing one cohesive thought within a "body" of work that can
be shown in its entirety. (Kathleen Cavender) ab

The time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London. (John Constable on
the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition) jb

There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the
work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to
an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best
advantage. (Robert Genn) jb

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to
be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually
are. (Childe Hassam on Ten American Painters) jb

Art exhibitions come alive in the form of street fairs, formal juried shows, or as
organized "open studios"... This bounty of skilled artists, notable art
competitions, progressive community art festivals and sophisticated buyers is a
genuine inspiration... (Karen Honaker) gr

Well, something must be done for May, / The time is drawing nigh / To figure in
the Catalogue, / And woo the public eye. (Thomas Hood) jb

I must take this opportunity again to warn you and Mr. Dilworth that none of my
sketches, oil or pencil, are good enough to exhibit... but... will supply me with
enough subject material for several years of painting. (E. J. Hughes to Lawren
Harris) ka
When we artists put a painting on the wall at an exhibition, we bare our souls...
At that time, everyone becomes a critic. (Sidney Hermel) ba

It gives me the feeling that I should continue heading in the direction I am

taking. (E. J. Hughes on seeing his 1967 retrospective) ka

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself
out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be
abolished. (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres) gr

With the collective exhibitions we have always held and too often repeated, we will
finish up with public curiosity satiated and the Press still against us. (Claude
Monet) ba

I hear that my friends are preparing another exhibition this year but I must
discount the possibility of participating in it since I have nothing worth showing.
(Claude Monet) ba

I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good price
to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could educate
public taste... (Claude Monet to Berthe Morisot) ba

It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new series,
as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group.
(Claude Monet to Paul Durand-Ruel) ba

A lot of professional artists do not participate in shows with awards but rather
the shows that present all artists equally. Let the public be the judges by buying
their art without the bias of a juror's opinion. (Charles Morris) ab

Every artist ought to be an exhibitionist. (Egbert Oudendag) rg

It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an

unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention
to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is
expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.
(Walter J. Phillips) gr

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the
Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people
who resort to them. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) jb

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his
shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody
admires his picture? (Rudolf Steiner) js

A one-man show should contain as varied a collection as possible; this means it

should have figures, landscapes and still-lives of different periods. (Max Stern to
E. J. Hughes) ka

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Expectation

Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect
abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. (Eileen Caddy) sj

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things:
either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.
(Alexander Calder) gr

I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog without
being expected to take it home with me. (Frank A. Clark) ap

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not

received at all. (Peter Drucker) bcm

No one expects the days to be gods. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) rg

The threshold is the place of expectation. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) gr

Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim.
Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the public
already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much
offended. (Robert Henri) gr

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be
sought out and difficult. (Heraclitus) js

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience
and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. (James
Joyce) jb

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Jack
Kinder) sg

Focusing on aspects of interaction and relationship rather than on art objects

calls for a radical rearrangement in our expectation of what an artist does.
(Suzanne Lacey) df

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing
for me that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.
(Louise Nevelson) gr

From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and
character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter
himself, probably, could produce. And we accordingly often find that the finished
work disappoints the expectation that was raised from the sketch... (Sir Joshua
Reynolds) gr

Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after
you've done what you are expected to do. (Brian Tracy) hh

Each painting should be a surprise journey with an unexpected ending. (Robert E.

Wood) df

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Experience

It is an exciting experience when you have all your materials to hand, and nature,
in one of her many moods, is spread out before you. (Lionel Aggett) ba

The emotional and spiritual experience I have when I am painting the interaction
between myself, the paper, and the paint that, to me, is the ultimate art form.
(Brian Atyeo) df

I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the open
sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the
world. (Margaret Bourke-White) ka

Travel, listen, look, learn. Never stand still with what you have; it will leave
you. Keep focused. (Harley Brown) ab

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, /Lest you should think he
never could recapture /The first fine careless rapture. (Robert Browning) sj

What's done we partly may compute, but know not what's resisted. (Robert Burns) sj

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be
sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the
thing. (Emily Carr) sl

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art
on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. (Paul Cezanne) ba

The knowledge of the means of expressing our emotions is only acquired through very
long experience. (Paul Cezanne) rg

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having
done all that could be done. (Eugene Delacroix) sl

Over time, experience will think you through the technicalities; the language will
surface not as a language but a translation, a message. (Laurie DeMatteo) rg

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot
learn from books. (Benjamin Disraeli) vw

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. (E. L.
Doctorow) sj

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print. (Isadora Duncan)
bcm

When the soul wants to have an experience of something, she throws an image of the
thing ahead of her and then enters into it. (Meister Johann Eckhart) sl

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

(Albert Einstein) bcm

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning. (T. S. Eliot) bcm

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. (Havelock Ellis) bcm

The years teach much which the days never knew. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js

Go to an extreme and then retreat to a more useful position. (Brian Eno) bcm

To look outward, to enlarge experience, that is, has always been the first job of
the artist. And it is precisely this which is not only ignored but outspokenly
denied by so many of today's painters and poets. (Margaret Fairley) sl

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert. (Suzanne Falter-
Barns) de

What experience has shown me is that is takes your life to become an artist. (Eric
Fischl) gr
This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the
sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.
(Frederick Franck) ka

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks
confusing and messy, and it always looks uncomfortable. (John W. Gardner) bcm

Experience is only half of experience. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) js

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine
picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe) bcm

Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a
vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art
galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it
becomes mere icing on the cake. (Anthony Gormley) df

I learned a long time ago that I could try to reinvent the wheel or I could keep my
eyes and ears open and learn from other artists' experiences. (Charles Harrington)
ab

It was an ever clearer and deeply moving experience of oneness with the spirit of
the whole land. It was this spirit which dictated, guided and instructed us how the
land should be painted. (Lawren Harris) gr

If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an
uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us
with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes
it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience. (Lawren
Harris) sl

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of
foreboding. (Eric Hoffer) bcm

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to
him. (Aldous Huxley) em

Deep experience is never peaceful. (Henry James) bcm

Experience is never limited, and it is never compete; it is an immense sensibility,

a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of
consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. (Henry James)
ba

A painting should contain more experience than simply intended statement. (Jasper
Johns) mb

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you
make it again. (Franklin P. Jones) sl

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what
it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters,
the confrontation with things. (Asger Jorn) df

When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money
slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time or better the experience of
color coming slowly out of the tube is with me to this day. (Wassily Kandinsky)
df

Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced even a proverb is no proverb to

you until your life has illustrated it. (John Keats) ba

Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards
carefully avoid. (John Keats) bcm

Paint represents experience and makes it actual. (Peter Lanyon) df

It is only when we let ourselves be open to experience... to being surprised, that

we can experience anything new... If I decide in advance what the experience should
be, I cannot have a fresh experience. (Lawrence LeShan & Henry Margenau) df

Only when I experience do I compose only when I compose do I experience. (Gustav

Mahler) rg

We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade. (Eric Maisel) ka

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human
experience? (Rollo May) df

Experience, even for a painter, is not exclusively visual. (Walter Meigs) sj

When you are doing a piece, you are with it. You don't want to wait until next
week, when experience will have given you something else. (Louise Nevelson) sl

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it
won't come out your horn. (Charlie Parker) sj

The artist seeks not truth, but an enlargement of the scope of his ordinary
experience. (J. Rahrer) df

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. (Joseph

Roux) js

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember. (Carolee
Schneemann) df

You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. (Barbara Smith)
df

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as

colour. (Stephen de Staebler) ka

Let the child go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his
impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while
a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks,
or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead
flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be
got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual
experience. (Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller) lp

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has
to open up to new perspectives. (Antoni Tapies) df

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! (Henry
David Thoreau) ba
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a
part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no
experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. (Henry
David Thoreau) js

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has

experienced. (Leo Tolstoy) js

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives,
you make it welcome with your experience. (Anne Truitt) df

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
(unknown) bcm

Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for
there you have been, there you long to return. (Leonardo da Vinci) sl

To paint a chicken you have to be a chicken. (Edgar Whitney) df

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. (Oscar Wilde) js

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde) lc

If you paint a man leaning over, your own back must ache. (N. C. Wyeth) df

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Experiments

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you
want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. (Fred Astaire) bcm

We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with
ideas from the pool of history both distant and more recent despite the
potential for our experiments to fail. (Doug Dawson) ba

A theory can be proven by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the
birth of a theory. (Albert Einstein) bcm

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson) ae

To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is
a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality.
(Banesh Hoffman) df

I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider
important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art,
impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting,
which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing. (E. J.
Hughes on his war art) ka

As you can see, at my age 48 Art is still one big experiment. (E. J. Hughes) ka

Regard everything as an experiment. (Corita Kent) df

In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to
their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-
irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug
habit. (Marshall McLuhan) df

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too
radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style. (oliver) ab

Experimentation keeps new ideas rising to the surface. (Joseph Orr) ba

I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or
art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different
subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting. (Ron Parker) ab

I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it
all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest
in the problem wanes. (Pablo Picasso) df

Only when you free yourself to be a mere beginner again, which implies
experimentation, do you progress to the next level of excellence... (Stella
Reinwald) ab

I didn't think; I experimented. (Wilhelm Roentgen) vw

Art, like life, should be free, since they are both experimental. (George
Santayana) df

Art is realm of thought experiments that quicken, sharpen and sweeten our being in
this world. (Wendy Steiner) df

Art flourishes where there is a sense of nothing having been done before, of
complete freedom to experiment; but when caution comes in you get repetition, and
repetition is the death of art. (Alfred North Whitehead) df

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Exploration

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of
exploration. (Ansel Adams) ba

I am trying to listen to what a certain situation demands, and that means going
outwards, exploring, leaving myself behind. (Julian Bell) df

Each painting is an exploration in unknown country, or as Manet said, it is like

throwing oneself into the sea in order to learn to swim. (Prunella Clough) df

I don't begrudge my education but I wish I had started working on my own

explorations sooner. (Judith D'Agostino) ab

We shall not cease from exploration / And in the end of all our exploring / Will be
to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. (T. S. Eliot)
ajs

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets
about his business. (Robert Flaherty) sl

I am mindful to allow for the joy of exploration and discovery within the framework
of each of my works. (Tom Francesconi) ka

There were dozens of lakes, many of them not on the map. For identification
purposes we gave them names. The bright sparkling lakes we named after people we
admired... to the swampy ones, all messed up with moose tracks, we gave the names
of the critics who disparaged us. (A. Y. Jackson) gr

I do not explain, I explore. (Marshall McLuhan) df

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration. (Guido Molinari) df

Meaning is not thought up and then written down. The act of writing is an act of
thought. All writing is experimental in the beginning. It is an attempt to solve a
problem, to find a meaning, to discover its own way towards a meaning. (Donald
Murray) js

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new
impressions. (Walter Pater) js

I obliged myself to explore where I might otherwise not have. And that's what
'mind-flexing' is all about making those brain-muscles work so that you feel
empowered to pursue your own vision. (Tony Smibert) ab

I explore the particular with the hope of discovering something microscopically

universal. (Lynda Gaelyn Smith) ba

I'm not lost. I'm exploring. (Jana Stanfield) df

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Expression

When an artist is more concerned with what is said than how it is said there is no
art. (Anonymous) nb

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in
this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
(Simone de Beauvoir) sl

Understate and over-prove. (Frank Bettger) rg

There is something of the essence of creative expression that informs and

transcends all its manifestations and when you touch it magic! (Annie Bevan) ab

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer
whose words sound good but have no meaning. (Gerald Brommer) ba

A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and
form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself or
else it belongs to the field of illustration. (John F. Carlson) sj

There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the
soul, life speaking to life. (Emily Carr) ka

Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as
logically as possible. (Paul Cezanne) ba

One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but one
is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of expression.
(Paul Cezanne) ba

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist
has acquired. (Gustave Courbet) sl
The only thing better than singing is more singing. (Ella Fitzgerald) bcm

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

(Matthew Fox) mra

The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile. (Jerome Frank) df

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy
or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.
(Naum Gabo) gr

I work in a meditative manner. My visual language is pulled from my unconscious and

I express in my work what I cannot express with words. (Pat Gentenaar-Torley) df

To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their
mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To
express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber
background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset
radiance. (Vincent Van Gogh) sa

There have been times when I have found it easier to express what I have seen in
the landscape in words rather than paint. (Lawrence Gowing) df

The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday. (Lawren

Harris) gr

Everything we feel deeply must be expressed. (Hans Hartung) df

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the
realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
(Georg Wilhelm Hegel) gr

A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. (Robert Henri) am

Technicalities are but means employed by the artist in expressing what he has to
say, and it is the expression that counts. (Edward Alden Jewell) lw

Content starts with an artist's reaction to a subject and develops into an

expression of their relationship with, vision of, and emotions and attitude toward
their subject. (Joyce Kamikura) df

People seem to worry about self-expression that is somehow too personal... Art has
always been personal. (Bonnie Sherr Klein) ba

Any work of art can be looked at as a series of decisions made about problems that
you give yourself about how to express a certain idea. (John Leon) sl

I like to express the whole impact of an experience, rather than one specific
memory. (Nancy Livesay) df

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. (Henri

Matisse) js

The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the

figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays
a part. (Henri Matisse) df

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

(W. Somerset Maugham) js

If the artist has worked with sufficient concentration over the years, he finds
that for the most part he is 'at home' at his most humble, unpretending, best,
most honest in one particular manner of expression. (Elza Mayhew) df

As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of

clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with,
followed up by an impact on the psyche. (Joan Miro) df

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to
express emotions to assign a linguistic function to color. (Guido Molinari) df

Everything is expressed through relationships. (Piet Mondrian) df

Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of

function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual
vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses. (Henry Moore)
jb

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken
from your own experience. (Berthe Morisot) tm

In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as

varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited
vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential. (Robert Motherwell) df

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do no matter who
they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself? (Georgia O'Keeffe) df

I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction show anybody
ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the human
body as whole and relatively healthy. (Philip Pearlstein) jb

The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression. (Walter J.

Phillips) gr

Despite any will I may have in the matter, what I express interests me more than my
ideas. (Pablo Picasso) jb

Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression

which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing
more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute. (Marcel Proust) nb

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. (Kate Reid) nb

Style in painting is the same as in writing a power over materials, whether words
or colours, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
nb

Most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever
entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious
existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures. (Rainer Maria
Rilke) gir

I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. (Mark Rothko) ka

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. (Albert
Pinkham Ryder) js
Beyond useless discussions of figurative or abstract art is the imperious necessity
to express oneself as one is, making ours all the energetic possibilities of the
universe. (Antonio Saura) ka

As an artist you may spend years searching for expression. When you find the medium
you truly love, expression finds you. (Cindy Testerink) ct

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
(Mark Twain) rg

We must always apologize for talking painting. (Paul Valery) df

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be

expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. (Georges Vantongerloo) gr

In searching for a fresh vocabulary of expression... painters sought inspiration in

arts formerly perceived to be 'primitive' and naive or as standing somehow at the
childhood of art. (Joan M. Vastokas) df

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Failure

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he gives up. (Anonymous) lc

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. (Roger W. Babson) ka

I never know where I am going with a painting. I only know where I've been, and
frankly, I believe that every painter is in a state of continual failure. The only
constant in a painter's life is failure. (William Bailey) jb

Failure is the mechanism of learning. (Geoffrey Ballard) df

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail... failure is his world and to

shrink from it desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living... (Samuel
Beckett) df

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel
Beckett) de

Without fail, three or four hideous paintings down the road, an absolutely
wonderful painting appears. A painting that is a better painting than I know how to
do. A painting that feels effortless. (Eleanor Blair) ba

Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most
people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. (Frank Burford) bcm

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody
else. (John Burroughs) bcm

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making
excuses. (George Washington Carver) sl

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. (Coco
Chanel) sl

Failure is the line of least persistence. (W. A. Clarke) lc

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. (Charles Horton Cooley) js

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone. (Bill Cosby) sl

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. (Quentin Crisp) bcm

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged
if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
(Charles Dickens) js

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished

success. (Edward Dowden) bcm

Failures are events, not people. (Faith Duck) fd

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. (Thomas
Edison) sl

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison) sl

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass
it so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson) sl

I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for
myself. (Tracey Emin) mb

Don't find a fault; find a remedy. (Henry Ford) lc

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Henry Ford) bcm

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will
always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. I don't know if I
work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to
do. (Alberto Giacometti) df

I've failed again! (Vincent Van Gogh) df

Blocks produce in the artist an attitude of pessimism and defeat. He loses that
necessary touch of arrogance; the drive to produce new things fades; the mind is
blunted. (Lawrence Hatterer) ba

A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. (Ernest Hemingway) js

All men of goodwill have this in common that our works put us to shame. (Hermann
Hesse) ba

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
(Elbert Hubbard) em

Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments responding to

them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from
them. [on Dickens' Great Expectations] (John Irving) ap

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't
matter that would be my life. (Jasper Johns) jb
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in
a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads
us to seek earnestly after what is true... (John Keats) bcm

It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts. (Oscar Levant) js

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. (Cassiu Longinus) lc

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if
they know failure and little else... (Eric Maisel) jb

The only people who never fail are those who never, never try. (Og Mandino) sl

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own
being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also you will have betrayed our community
in failing to make your contribution to the whole. (Rollo May) df

He who has never failed somewhere... that man cannot be great. (Herman Melville) gr

Failures can be divided into those who thought and never did, and those who did and
never thought. (W. A. Nance) lc

Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them
all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to
mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and
to shame one into better ways. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

Failure is only in the shadows of a great prize a shadow that evaporates when you
choose to be bold and shine from within. (Todd Plough) ba

He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist. (Auguste Rodin) arp

Re-priming paintings gives the feeling of removing collected badness. (Yaroslaw

Rozputnyak) ab

Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and those
who did and never thought. (John Charles Salak) js

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation
of art and science. (Gino Severini) gr

But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. (William
Shakespeare) sl

When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures.
I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. (George Bernard Shaw)
lc

The minute you start thinking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have
lost. (George P. Shultz) lc

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly
Sills) lc

Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much. Surely that may be his
epitaph of which he need not be ashamed. (Robert Louis Stevenson) rg

Every path you take educates you and leads you to the next. (Martha Sturdy) ba
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. (Billy Sunday) lc

I'm a failed conceptual painter. The times we live in demand it... I also see
myself as a failed copyist. I intentionally get everything wrong. (Monica Tap) df

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a
skillful join must be made. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) ka

It's hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. (James Thurber)
sl

Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their
greatest failure. (Brian Tracy) hh

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time. (Brian Tracy) hh

It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that
paralyses you. (Brian Tracy) hh

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double
your rate of failure. (Brian Tracy) hh

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones. (Author unknown) sl

The crime is not to avoid failure. The crime is not to give triumph a chance. (Huw
Wheldon) ba

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Fashion

The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the
new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary
whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?'
(Abe Ajay) df

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
(Bettina Ballard) bcm

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its
back on bad and good alike. (Eric Bently) js

Fashion is made to become unfashionable. (Coco Chanel) rg

There's never a new fashion but it's old. (Chaucer) js

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion,
on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
(Jean Cocteau) js

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by
fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... (John Constable) gr

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. (Quentin Crisp) bcm

For a traditional painter it is well worthwhile to live to a great age. You never
know when you may find yourself in fashion again. (Bernard Dunstan) df

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect
ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian) js

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is

haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and
fantastical, all in a breath tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim
of the minute. (William Hazlitt) js

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Lillian
Hellman) gr

There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later:
namely, Novelty, novelty, novelty. (Thomas Hood) nb

Whatever is not eternal is eternally out of date. (C. S. Lewis) bcm

In words as fashions the same rule will hold, / Alike fantastic if too new or
old; / Be not the first by whom the new are tried, / Nor yet the last to lay the
old aside. (Alexander Pope) em

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at
the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which
you ought to steer. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr

He who always goes against the fashion is himself its slave. (Francois de La
Rochefoucauld) bcm

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always

old-fashioned. (George Santayana) ba

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. (George Bernard Shaw) ka

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the
lasting. (E. C. Stedman) js

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
(Henry David Thoreau) js

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
(Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) jb

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. (Peter Ustinov) jb

It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. (Voltaire)
js

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six

months. (Oscar Wilde) ab

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Fear

If you think too much and fail to take action, fear makes its home within you.
(Anonymous) lc

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
(Mary Kay Ash) sl

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will
it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out? (Margaret Atwood) sj

To the timid soul, nothing is possible. (John Bach) sl

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to
fear. (Francis Bacon) ba

There is no delight the equal of dread. (Clive Barker) bcm

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary
of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
(Louis E. Boone) bcm

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. (Charlie Brown)
js

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation. (Elias Canetti) la

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. (Miguel de Cervantes) nb

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it
physical expression, go out and explore. If you are a brave man you will do
nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to
prove their bravery. (Apsley Cherry-Garrard) sb

The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do. (Sequichie Comingdeer) sl

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Francois de
La Rochefoucauld) js

Of course, I don't go onto the studio with the idea of 'saying' something that's
ludicrous. What I do is face the blank canvas, which is terrifying. (Richard
Diebenkorn) jb

Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most. (Fyodor
Dostoevski) sj

The more we try new things, the more we realize what we are capable of and the less
we fear fear. (Michael Duncan) ba

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl

Sufficient to today are the duties of today. Don't waste life in doubts and fears;
spend yourself on the work before you; well assured that the right performance of
this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow
it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) dr

The two terrors that discourage originality and creative living are fear of public
opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) bcm

You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing. (Lewis Freedman)
bcm

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. (Robert Frost) ab

Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in
order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer. (Jose Ortega y Gasset)
sh
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in
two small jumps. (David Lloyd George) lc

I come into the studio very fearfully. I creep in to see what happened the night
before. And the feeling is one of, "My God, did I do that?" (Philip Guston) jb

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you
will see how low it was. (Dag Hammarskjold) js

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock... (Evan
Harris) lp

I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it
has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Frank Herbert) js

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. (Alfred Hitchcock)
js

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. (Eric
Hoffer) js

These then are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is
worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (William James) lc

I have accepted fear as a part of life specifically the fear of change... I have
gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back. (Erica Jong) vw

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom. (Ilya Kabakov) df

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. (John F. Kennedy)
js

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has
returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a
few steps, but really climb them... (Paul Klee) gr

There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the end
from the beginning. (E. J. Klemme) js

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. (Dr. Edwin Land) pd

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll
be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.
(Audre Lorde) js

When I dare to be powerful... to use my strength in the service of my Vision, then

it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. (Audre Lorde) bcm

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major
contributory factor to great paintings. (David Louis) dkl

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in
the dark computer and the locked studio. (Eric Maisel) ka

We are literally in the water... and the house can only be reached by boat; we had
to take refuge on the first floor but the water is still rising and where will all
this end? It's quite frightening... Painting is out of the question... (Claude
Monet) ba

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear
of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. (Jim Morrison) js

Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have. (Edvard
Munch) tm

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (Joseph Chilton
Pearce) sj

Fear is the enemy of art. But it's a misfortune to be in complete control and a
gift to feel slightly lost. (Melanie Peter) ab

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it?
Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that
terror, he's through. (Robert Rauschenberg) jb

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is
more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon) js

Every day do something that frightens you. (Eleanor Roosevelt) ph

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
(Rumi) nb

The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. (Albert Pinkham Ryder) jb

Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a
total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's
most important battle he defeated the fear of trying. (Robert H. Schuller) sl

You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to the
next scary area and make it comfortable... (Linda Seger) de

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we
can. (Sydney Smith) sl

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product
of fear. (John Steinbeck) ba

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set
before him with a single mind. (Robert Louis Stevenson) sl

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune

at their own pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. (Robert Louis Stevenson) sj

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. (Publilius Syrus) sl

Fear makes us feel small and uncertain, uncomfortable and separate. Fearlessness
expands and creates possibilities. (Helena Tiainen) ka

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome
their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. (Brian Tracy) hh

Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain. (Brian Tracy) hh

To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be. (Brian
Tracy) hh

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. (Mark Twain)
sh

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and
serious. (Brenda Ueland) sl

Oh god, I love a deadline, it's like laying face up on a guillotine waiting for
gravity... the thrill of it all! (Will VanDorin) pd

It is what we fear that happens to us. (Oscar Wilde) ba

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate / Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure / It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens
us. (Marianne Williamson) mym

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! (Emiliano Zapata) sl

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Finishing

I don't want to sign the work until it looks like it has been lived on, until I
have violated the open white space and created something that can become
independent of me and fend for itself. (Dion Archibald) ba

Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. (Aristotle) gr

Put your energy into 'finishing' and you're missing your next great painting.
(Jacqueline Baldini) ba

The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no
reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a work
to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the figure
or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it. (John Berger)
tjh

To the impressionist, the work was finished, no matter how casual the execution,
when the idea was completely realized on the canvas. (Richard J. Boyle) jb

The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared. (Georges Braque) df

The painting is always finished before the artist thinks it is. (Harley Brown) ab

At the end of the day, the only thing that counts is your insight, your reaction,
and the way you convey your feeling towards the subject. (Alvaro Castagnet) ab

I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of
fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more
knowing. (Paul Cezanne) ab

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. (Winston Churchill) bcm

If I set myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else
shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? (George S. Clason) sl

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
(Marie Curie) ab
A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most
finished product. (Eugene Delacroix) df

Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he

chooses. (Eugene Delacroix) df

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit in order to finish it. (Eugene
Delacroix) df

I really injoy the finishing part of the painting process. It's like preforming the
Beethoven Sonata when all the hard slog has been done to make it a possibility.
(Leoni Duff) ba

Once a work is finished, I forget about being a composer and approach it as a

pianist. (Vivian Fine) ba

All large tasks are completed in a series of starts. (Neil Fiore) ka

It can be difficult to assess when a painting is complete. For this reason, I often
set aside the painting to prevent overworking it. When I am unsure, I ask myself if
doing more would add or take away from the purpose of the painting. (Mary French)
ba

Focus and momentum shorten the path to the finish line. (Connie Frey) ba

Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for its
first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail... (Paul Gauguin)
gr

That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it
becomes to finish it. (Alberto Giacometti) df

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a
crime. (Ted Godwin) sj

The important thing is not what the author, or any artist, had in mind to begin
with but at what point he decided to stop. (D. W. Harding) ab

Don't ever set yourself a stopping place, because maybe that is just the beginning.
(John Held-Jr.) df

My pictures really finish themselves. (Howard Hodgkin) mb

...letting well enough alone which is the rule for grown artists only. (Winslow
Homer) jb

Dry brush details are finishing touches that will make the painting come together.
A contrasting light pigment works best in the sunlit areas. (William Hook) ka

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. (Joseph Joubert) js

The best part is: I'm never finished! There are always new angles, new shadows, new
lights... (Paula Bachtiger Kling) ab

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the
beginning. (Louis L'Amour) bcm

When I'm finished, I always wonder what would have happened had I made different
decisions along the way. (Brent R. Laycock) ab

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. (Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow) js

When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is done,
the strength lies in stopping. (Eric Maisel) ab

I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in
place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its
boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a
boat. (John Marin) ka

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but
I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it
so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind. (Henri Matisse) df

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you
finished it. (Jeff Melvoin) js

If I see an ending, I can work backwards. (Arthur Miller) df

It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that
strength; it is the only strength I have. (Claude Monet) rg

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is

much harder to do than one might suppose... (Claude Monet) ba

I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant. (Claude
Monet) sa

I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the
impossible and the more powerless I feel. (Claude Monet) ba

I'm going to offer fifty francs to my landlord to see if I can have the oak tree's
leaves removed... Isn't it the final straw to be finishing a winter landscape at
this time of year... (Claude Monet) ba

The painterly painters labor under a disadvantage, since their idea of finish is
not that of the general public. (Charles Movalli) rg

As a painting nears completion, I sometimes wonder when to stop... the best clue
for me is when I start painting the next one in my head. (Kathryn Mullaney) ba

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more but then maybe
ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far. (Bruce Nauman) rg

A painting is like the fa ade of a house... and you're like a janitor who goes
around systematically trying to close all the windows and doors but when you get
to the top floor to close the last window, a wind blows open the one on the first
landing. You rush down and close that one, and then one on the middle floor blows
open and you rush to close that. But when you've closed all the entries to the
house, then the painting is closed not that it's finished, it's just that you
can't enter it any longer. (Graham Nickson) df

To know when to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin. To

continue merely automatically is as much a sin against the creative spirit as to
start work without true inspiration. (Karl Nierendorf) df
Now that it is framed, we can appreciate it. (W. Parks) df

When I paint a picture, there comes a moment when the signs and figures on it come
alive and begin their own secret, independent life. Spying on their games, one
starts to have a different attitude toward them and toward what remains to be done.
(Yuril Petruk) df

While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous

elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an
unfinished state is even more reprehensible. (Walter J. Phillips) gr

Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished! To finish a work? To finish a
picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to
rid it of its soul to give it its final blow; the most unfortunate one for the
painter as well as for the picture. (Pablo Picasso) jb

The foreground is just an access or entry. The less you do to a foreground, the
better. (George Post) df

All's well that ends well. (proverb) ba

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. (Rembrandt) df

I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. (Pierre-
Auguste Renoir) ab

However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a
false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light
it can be shown. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying
journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle. (Charles Sheeler) df

The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates

most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an
effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's
begun. (Burton Silverman) ba

In painting, the gravest immorality is to try to finish what isn't well begun. But
a picture that is well begun may be left off at any point. Look at Cezanne's water
colours! (Sir Matthew Smith) gr

If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself often when you
least expect it. (Stan Smith) ka

There is no artist's studio, even a mediocre one, in which a study may not be found
superior to his finished works. (Alfred Stevens) df

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Igor Stravinsky) ab

I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's
something so dead about a finished painting. (John Updike) df

Stop when finished. (Frank Webb) df

I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the
painting is finished. (Neil Welliver) df

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow suggests no effort and
is finished from its beginning. (James Abbot McNeill Whistler) rg

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are
thoroughly familiar. (Oscar Wilde) gr

One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even though

only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I expect
each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage. (Christopher Willard) df

I believe an artist's duty is to make a painting so complete that when it's framed
and put on a wall it seems to say, 'I'm all there is. There is no more.' (Robert E.
Wood) df

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual
thoughts are left visible. (Pliny the Younger) rg

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Flexibility

The more flexible the arrangement [working from home] the more likely one ends up
twisted like a pretzel. (Adam) ba

If there is something wonderful happening in the paint, stay open to that and work
with it rather than against it. Stay flexible to the adventure of creativity...
(Donna Baspaly) ka

The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd

guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it. (Jeremy
Campbell) js

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility. (Mason Cooley) js

The creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his
thinking. (A. J. Cropley) ba

Exaggeration and modification are the undisputed prerogative of the creative

artist. (Charles Sargeant Jagger) jb

A large portion of success is derived from flexibility. It is all very well to have
principles, rules of behavior concerning right and wrong. But it is quite as
essential to know when to forget as when to use them. (Alice Foote MacDougall) js

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are

rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives. (Eric Maisel) ab

The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are
open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times,
they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in
striving to reach their goals. (Roger von Oech) js

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be
born. (Odilon Redon) jb

If I can get the big shapes manipulated into a strong pattern, there is tremendous
flexibility in interpreting the details. This flexibility allows me to paint
intuitively and emotionally... (Eric Wiegardt) gr

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Flow

Developing a composition is a continuous flow of ideas, where the artist combines,

adds, reduces, adapts and discards the various elements in an unending discovery of
new possibilities. (Alessandra Bitelli) ka

I'm either hurtling down the track not noticing the passing countryside, or
standing on the platform having missed the train... The two extremes seem to
smoothly flow into each other... (Sarah Cannell) jb

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not "wasting time." (Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi) jb

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls
away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the
previous one, like playing jazz. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) jb

Your flow is as tangible and real as any locomotive, and just as powerful. (Robert
Genn) jb

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not
have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of
your art. (Robert Genn) jb

If I complete my last painting without starting another one first, the flow stops.
(Brad Greek) jb

Flow is simply the result of shifting from left brain to right brain work. (Steve
Hovland) ba

All artists know that those paintings that are created freely and effortlessly are
the best let it flow ! (Dianne Middleton) ab

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
(Patanjali) sg

"Being in the flow" is definitely worth striving for. I know when I'm there. I'm
tapped into something that is far beyond my ability. (Aleta Pippin) ab

Specialization is an acceleration of flow. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) jb

To somehow let loose the bonds of everyday life, to close off the voices and let
the creative spirit flow is the most rewarding side of creativity in any form. (Jo
Scott-B) ab

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Form

Form is an extension of content. (Anonymous) df

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation
of objects in order to make it pleasurable. (Rudolf Arnheim) df

Lines as edges kill a sense of form. (Paul Bandford) df

I would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of
ultimate reality. (Clive Bell) jb
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. (George Bellows) bcm

The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described as
a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in its
whole embodied form. (Martin Buber) df

The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent them
by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities, colours and
volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water, currents of air,
viscosities and odours of the greatest variety and disparity. (Alexander Calder)
df

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally
corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional
life. (Graham Collier) df

Drawing is your understanding of form. (Edgar Degas) df

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.
(Gustave Flaubert) bcm

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form
boiled down to so little. (Alberto Giacometti) jb

The world seems to be made up of a never-ending series of overlapping forms. There

always seems to be something in back of something else. (Donald Graham) df

If a form isn't right, if it's erased, the correction has meaning. It's the process
of the mind, moving and making. The form didn't drop from outer space. (Elliott
Green) df

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only
appear when you are far away. (Robert Henri) am

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but
rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. (Wassily Kandinsky) df

I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and
white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the
masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge... (Ellsworth
Kelly) df

Work from the pithy eye out, swimming in language sea. Something that you feel will
find a form. (Jack Kerouac) df

The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way
itself. (Paul Klee) df

A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically,
to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible
ideas. (Suzanne Langer) df

My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that one
could add nothing more to them. (Henri Laurens) gr

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. (Roy Lichtenstein) tm

Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form. (Mary Beth McKenzie)
ka

If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of flowers
or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back like
Cezanne to the essential forms of what he sees. (Robert Motherwell) df

As forms, architectural elements are often complex and invariably interesting foils
for light and shadow. (Michael Nevin) ka

The secret of many of my deformations which many people do not understand is

that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one
line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in
toward the attracting point and form is altered. (Pablo Picasso) js

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only
forms which are more or less convincing lies. (Pablo Picasso) jb

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our
own, we see it under multiple forms. (Marcel Proust) df

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art
you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through. (Dan Rice) tm

Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of
modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form. (John Sloan) gr

I have to be clear of the form before I can really work out my problems there in
terms of composition. (Deon Venter) ba

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Freedom

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander,
to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?
(Edward Abbey) bcm

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking, I cannot choose
but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will
exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no
more. [2nd U.S. president] (John Adams) js

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care
and worry. (James Truslow Adams) js

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. (Henri-Frederic
Amiel) ka

Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own
prison. (Sir Edwin Arnold) vw

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
(Richard Avedon) ab

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation.

But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
(Balthus) df

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. (Aneurin Bevan) js

Free time is a necessity if you are to exist as an artist. (Eleanor Blair) ba

The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. (Leon Blum)
js

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,

well-meaning but without understanding. (Louis D. Brandeis) lp

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.
(Edie Brickell) ka

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed. (Edmund Burke) ba

Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm
against the wind. (Lord Byron) js

Writing just for the hell of it is heaven. (Julia Cameron) sl

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. (Albert Camus)
em

The freedom is in the paint; one must become the paint, so to speak, feeling it
flow through the end of the brush. (Philip J. Carroll) rg

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. (Albert Camus) ba

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a

monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more. (Anton Chekhov) ka

The work of art is a scream of freedom. (Christo) ka

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work
does what he wants to do. (R. G. Collingwood) gr

When I am dead, let it be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to

no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of
liberty.' (Gustave Courbet) jb

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it
will have carried out its duty. (Gustave Courbet) sr

Imagine, if you will, the author standing on a high rooftop hurling books into the
void yelling, "Fly! Be free!" (Curtis Craddock) pd

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? (Dante) bcm

We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a

passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from
all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's
instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality. (Maurice
Denis) wn

No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a
gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy
it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. (Denis Diderot) js

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned
myself for each one of my undertakings. (Richard Diebenkorn) ph
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist / Before they're allowed to be free?
(Bob Dylan) nb

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these
aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of
mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (Albert
Einstein) sl

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can
labor in freedom. (Albert Einstein) lp

When I discover who I am, I'll be free. (Ralph Ellison) ab

Only the educated are free. (Epictetus) js

No man is free who is not master of himself. (Epictetus) js

I am chaos. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy
anarchy. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free. (the goddess Eris) dr

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for
anybody. (Suzanne La Follette) vw

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. (Alan Dean Foster) js

This is the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set
of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Victor Frankl) ba

People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security,
deserve neither freedom nor security. (Benjamin Franklin) em

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
(Mahatma Gandhi) sh

All the joys animal and human of a free life are mine. I have escaped
everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. (Paul Gauguin) jb

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do
with one's freedom. (Andre Gide) dr

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic
dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of
the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? (Nadine Gordimer) sl

The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you
undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The
artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints. (Hans Hartung) df

Unless a man had the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome
burden. (Eric Hoffer) bcm

Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that,
and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. (Horace) ba

Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as
a visitor. (Horace) ba

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. (Charles
Evans Hughes) js

A forest bird never wants a cage. (Henrik Ibsen) jb

You are free and that is why you are lost. (Franz Kafka) ba

There is no must in art because art is free. (Wassily Kandinsky) sj

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a
free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely
select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society
severs the root of art. (John F. Kennedy) js

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which
they seldom use. (Kierkegaard) js

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. (Kris Kristofferson) ba

Many terrible things are done in order to restrict the margin of liberty and
freedom of our citizens... I love liberty, and loving liberty, I know that the
price of it is vigilance. (Laurier Lapierre) ba

Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive
forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as
a song in the bath. (Mervyn Levy) sr

Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently. (Rosa Luxemburg) bcm

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the
same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others. (Nelson Mandela) jqb

An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of manner, a prisoner

of reputation, or a prisoner of success. (Henri Matisse) rg

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday

life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free...
(Henri Matisse) sr

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity
to mold ourselves. (Rollo May) js

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a
nuisance to other people. (John Stuart Mill) ba

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but
licence. (John Milton) ba

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp
out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full
of nature's darlings. (John Muir) ae

Painting is the one area to which you can really give your body. It's the ability
to get a re-creation of oneself through painting that gives people the feeling that
they are not trapped within their skins. (Hugh O'Donnell) df

It was all so far away... there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country and
I could work as I pleased. (Georgia O'Keeffe) ab
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell)
ba

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches. (P. K. Page)
df

Liberty is the secret to creativity. (Pierre Parisien) ba

Now: heaven knows, anything goes. (Cole Porter) ba

In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable
and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and
glorious celebrations. (Ronald Reagan) sl

Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can create,
and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all. (George
Rodrigue) js

Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your
jailers. (Jim Rohn) hh

Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) ba

All alive beings will eventually choose freedom. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) ab

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. (John
Ruskin) ba

There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free. (The
Siri Singh Sahib) vw

Man is condemned to be free. (Jean-Paul Sartre) ba

To Confine the Artist is a Crime, It Means Murdering Unborn Life. [Title of

earliest self-portrait] (Egon Schiele) jb

I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost
and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
(William Scott) df

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the

possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any
authority literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
(Ignazio Silone) em

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you
haven't go it yourself. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) ba

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't
like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down
that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. (Thomas Sowell) lp

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. (Gloria Steinem) em

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

(Adlai Stevenson) ba

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. (Twyla Tharp) lc
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than
housed in them. (Henry David Thoreau) em

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the
policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences. (Mao Tse-Tung) ba

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never
to practice either of them. (Mark Twain) ba

Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be
free is not given equally to all men and all nations. (Paul Valery) ba

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of
those extremes that fence all effort in. (Mark Van Doren) js

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. (Voltaire) js

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so
vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have
condemned him for these same truths. [referring to Helvetius's De L'Esprit which
was publicly burned in 1758] (Voltaire) ba

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in
perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? (Kurt Vonnegut-Jr.) sh

The greatest enemy of art is the absence of Limitation. (Orson Welles) nb

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free however free one
can be on this planet. (Theodore White) js

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
(Marianne Williamson) mym

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. (Virginia Woolf) ba

Me this unchartered freedom tires; / I feel the weight of chance-desires: / My

hopes no more must change their name, / I long for a repose that ever is the same.
(William Wordsworth) ba

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is
free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. (William Wordsworth) js

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of
technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek
freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of
so-called free and accidental brush handling. (Andrew Wyeth) tm

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<P>The artist reconstructs the random vocabulary of verticals, horizontals,
diagonals, volumes, cubes, spheres, textures, darks, lights, patterns, and color
into an order of vital relationships inextricably linked to the dynamics of life.
(R. D. Abbey &amp; G. William Fiero) df</P>
<P>Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the
sand were stone. (Jorge Luis Borges) sl</P>
<P>Michelangelo is a constructor, and Rafael an artist who, great as he is, is
always limited by the model. When he tries to be thoughtful he falls below the
<I>niveau</I> of his great rival. (Paul Cezanne) ba</P>
<P>The whole difference between a construction and a creation is exactly this: that
a thing constructed can be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is
loved before it exists. (G. K. Chesterton) df</P>
<P>We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. (Winston Churchill) bcm</P>
<P>My precept to all who build, is that the owner should be an ornament to the
house, and not the house to the owner. (Cicero) bcm</P>
<P>I build a painting by putting little marks together some look like hot dogs,
some like doughnuts. (Chuck Close) tm</P>
<P>I let nature invade my mind with her variety of changing forms; these become the
building blocks that I draw upon to create. (Charles Duback) df</P>
<P>The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the
main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of
a figure. (Thomas Eakins) jb</P>
<P>A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is
to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) em</P>
<P>He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come
and partake of the purest pleasure. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) js</P>
<P>Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought
together. (Vincent Van Gogh) sg</P>
<P>Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our
industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his
own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe... (Philip Guston) df</P>
<P>Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other
things in a landscape. (Charles Hawthorne) gr</P>
<P>Castles in the air they're so easy to take refuge in. So easy to build, too.
(Henrik Ibsen) bcm</P>
<P>The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great
pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these "walls around art." (Wassily
Kandinsky) gr</P>
<P>Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a
carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that
make a whole... (Henri Matisse) jb</P>
<P>I'll make them big like huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they
will have to look at them. [on flower series] (Georgia O'Keeffe) tm</P>
<P>Every act of construction is an act of destruction. (Pablo Picasso) df</P>
<P>Prose needs to be built like a cathedral. There one is truly without a name,
without ambition, without help; on scaffoldings, alone with one's consciousness.
(Rainer Maria Rilke) ka</P>
<P>If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to
work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build
end up building us. (Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were
making ships. (Charles Simic) em</P>
<P>The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement... Of course, He could
have built it to last longer but you can't have everything. (Neil Simon) gr</P>
<P>Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled. (unknown) bcm</P>
<P>The road to success is always under construction. (unknown) cns</P>
<P>Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain
from destruction. (Simone Weil) sl</P>
<P>These paintings are not planned... The construction of the picture happens as I
go from top to bottom. It's then that the adjustments occur: color, light, drawing,
tone. (Neil Welliver) df</P>
<P>Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in
inspiration. (Frank Yerby) ka</P>
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<P><A name=contemplation>Contemplation</A></P>
<P>The quiet time that I spend in my studio allows me the opportunity to
contemplate the poetic essence of a subject. (Peter Adams) ba</P>
<P>Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but
the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes
such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things
which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be. (Marcus Aurelius)
sc</P>
<P>At the heart of all creation lies deep contemplation. (Sandra Chantry) ab</P>
<P>The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful
workman. (Ananda Coomaraswamy) gr</P>
<P>I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. (Caspar
David Friedrich) jb</P>
<P>I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct
contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or
that in them. (Vincent Van Gogh) js</P>
<P>Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual
and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on
the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit. (Alex Grey) kc</P>
<P>There is no art without contemplation. (Robert Henri) rg</P>
<P>Painting is a means by which certain great people in the past have attained to a
maximum of being and self-awareness, and we can increase our own reality by the
contemplation of their works. (Francis Hoyland) sr</P>
<P>I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside
themselves like honey in a jar and just be. (Elizabeth Janeway) ka</P>
<P>True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. (Michelangelo)
js</P>
<P>Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. (Friedrich Nietzsche) vl</P>
<P>Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation. (Herbert Read) gr</P>
<P>Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature
and there defines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. (Auguste Rodin)
sl</P>
<P>The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of
affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of
contemplation. (Simone Weil) js</P>
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<P><A name=contentment>Contentment</A></P>
<P>Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. (Aesop) sl</P>
<P>Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is
satisfied with what is assigned to him. (Marcus Aurelius) nb</P>
<P>Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of
ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. (John Balguy) sh</P>
<P>One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he
will do. He has lain down to die, and the grass is already over him. (Christian
Nestell Bovee) bcm</P>
<P>True contentment is a real, even an active virtue not only affirmative but
creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it. (G.
K. Chesterton) ab</P>
<P>Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
(Thomas Fuller) em</P>
<P>Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress. (Mahatma Gandhi) bcm</P>
<P>Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. (Vincent Van Gogh)
sl</P>
<P>All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself. (Winslow Homer)
jb</P>
<P>I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I
am complemented often enough all the same... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because
painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself. (Robert Rauschenberg)
df</P>
<P>Who doth ambition shun / And loves to live i' the sun, / Seeking the food he
eats, / And pleas'd with what he gets. (William Shakespeare) nb</P>
<P>It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works
gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
sl</P>
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<P><A name=contrasts>Contrasts</A></P>
<P>Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon it is the very
heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any
ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore
influences. (Josef Albers) gr</P>
<P>Some forms in nature or in its states of transition are torn, others spongy,
still others powdery... Take such varied contrasts and project them onto a flat
surface, whether in a 'composition' or as handwritten notes accidentally jotted
down. (Julius Bissier) df</P>
<P>You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its
special character its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts. (Alfred Brendel)
df</P>
<P>In the canvas of life, a flat landscape would be pretty boring. It is the
valleys and the mountains that help us to appreciate the flatlands. It is the dark
that makes us appreciate the light, and the cold that makes us appreciate the warm.
(Anne Copeland) ab</P>
<P>In any painting a hard edge is harder and a soft one softer in the presence of
the other. (Warren Criswell) ab</P>
<P>There's a profound effect of black line against washes of colour. (Vicki
Easingwood) ab</P>
<P>Be sure that you don't lose the sharp edges, the contrasts in temperature and
value everything that supports this as a structure that exists in space. (Gay
Faulkenberry) ka</P>
<P>A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.
(Robert Henri) gr</P>
<P>I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against
straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly
nuanced shades of gray. (Fernand Leger) df</P>
<P>Contrasting color is the best means of capturing and incorporating the dramatic
effects of light in a painting. (Desmond O'Hagan) ab</P>
<P>Beauty, pleasure, and the good things of life are intensified, and perhaps only
exist, by reason of contrast. (Walter J. Phillips) ka</P>
<P>By merely increasing or decreasing the amount of contrast in any area we can
move the observer through the painting. (Mike Svob) ka</P>
<P>Contrasting color temperatures are as important as value contrasts. (Zoltan
Szabo) ab</P>
<P>Transparency painted in a picture produces its effect in a different way than
opaqueness. (Ludwig Wittgenstein) gr</P>
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<P><A name=convictions>Convictions</A></P>
<P>I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else.
Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of
drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. (Berenice Abbott) sl</P>
<P>My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. (James Agate) js</P>
<P>Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process'
and 'Discovery the Art Form.' (Abe Ajay) df</P>
<P>With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. (Pat Benatar) ka</P>
<P>Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that
everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn't
believe that everyone should see alike. (Mary Cassatt) gr</P>
<P>Conviction is the conscience of the mind. (Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort)
sg</P>
<P>Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can
unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be meek, but follow your own convictions. It is
better to be nothing than an echo of other painters. (Camille Corot) df</P>
<P>Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our
limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the
indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. (Jose Ortega y Gasset) sl</P>
<P>Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe) gr</P>
<P>I do not know myself how I paint it. I sit down with a white board before the
spot that strikes me. I look at what is before my eyes, and say to myself, that
white board must become something. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb</P>
<P>I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a
contribution to American painting. (Morris Graves) df</P>
<P>If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more
profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go
abstract or take up photography. (E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
<P>It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had enough individuality and
courage to stand by his own convictions. (Robert G. Ingersoll) rg</P>
<P>Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a
man lives are his convictions. (Francis C. Kelley) js</P>
<P>The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the
dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. (Eric Maisel) jb</P>
<P>The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on
one's own convictions. (Rollo May) rg</P>
<P>His special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical
world he evokes actually exists. (Wright Morris on Norman Rockwell) sl</P>
<P>All of us who write work out of a conviction that we are participating in some
sort of communal activity. (Joyce Carol Oates) rg</P>
<P>Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a
just cause. (Plutarch) sl</P>
<P>The height of your accomplishment will equal the depth of your convictions.
(William F. Scolavino) lc</P>
<P>From the artist there is no conscious effort to find universal truth or beauty,
no effort to analyze other men's minds in order to speak for them. His act in art
is an act of personal conviction and identity. (David Smith) wc</P>
<P>Be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. Refuse to
compromise. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>As long as I remain focused... I'm able to blast ahead, blazing my own trail
with little regard for who thinks what about it...! (Sandy Triolo) jb</P>
<P>If you stand, stand. If you sit, sit. But don't wobble! (Zen Master Ummon)
vl</P>
<P>Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is
fixed to a star does not change his mind. (Leonardo da Vinci) sl</P>
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<P><A name=copying>Copying</A></P>
<P>A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.
(Louis Armstrong) nb</P>
<P>Copying opens your eyes to new possibilities, and new techniques... but trying
to fob it off as your own is quite another matter. (Louise Bunn) ka</P>
<P>If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some
large stones full of cracks and copy them. (Cennino Cennini) gr</P>
<P>The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the
triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and
always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some
judgment in draftsmanship. (Cennino Cennini) gr</P>
<P>It would seem that copying photographs is never considered plagiarism...
Shouldn't real artists get past the point of copying the finished work of fine art
photographers? (Robb Debenport) ka</P>
<P>I don't want people to copy Matisse or Picasso, although it is entirely proper
to admit their influence. I don't make paintings like theirs. I make paintings like
mine. (Stuart Davis) mb</P>
<P>If my students seem to copy me when they are learning, that is good. It shows
they are listening and trying to do what I tell them. They will develop their own
style soon enough. (William Draper) ba</P>
<P>Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the
second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the
sequence. (Paul Gauguin) rg</P>
<P>Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first. (J.
E. Hedges) bcm</P>
<P>Copy the works of the Almighty first and those of Turner next. [advice to a
student] (Edward Lear) gr</P>
<P>If you absolutely have to appropriate someone else's work do us the favour of
being a genius and make it say something entirely new. (Lori Lukasewich) ka</P>
<P>Only God creates. The rest of us just copy. (Michelangelo) st</P>
<P>I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as
well as or better than the whole could... I had to create an equivalent for what I
felt about what I was looking at... not copy it. (Georgia O'Keeffe) ab</P>
<P>Annoyance arises from the feared implication that we are copyists in subject or
treatment, or both, whereas the common qualities that establish the relationship
result merely from a similarity of method. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Copying is an art in itself, demanding the greatest technical ability,
especially in watercolour. However well done, the copy invariably lacks that
nascent, ineffable, but definite quality, provided by the furious enthusiasm with
which an original is created, an essential spontaneity that defies reproduction.
(Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>There is the process of enlarging a watercolour, which actually amounts to
copying its good points and improving its bad ones, and is interesting
proportionately as the latter increase. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>To copy oneself is pathetic. (Pablo Picasso) ka</P>
<P>A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy; so he has only to
copy to prove his originality. (Radiquet) js</P>
<P>The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning
color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly attained by servilely copying the
model before you. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr</P>
<P>A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
nb</P>
<P>Copying clarifies the line between doing your own work and appropriating someone
else's. I think of it as a valid learning tool that should be set aside when you
become a professional. (Cindy Ricksgers) ka</P>
<P>I am just a copier, an impostor. I wait, I read magazines. After a while my
brain sends me a product. (Phillipe Starck) df</P>
<P>If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally
by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment. (Wayne Thiebaud)
df</P>
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<P><A name=courage>Courage</A></P>
<P>Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else
has ever been. (Alan Alda) sl</P>
<P>Just put a mark of paint on the canvas and let yourself carry on directed by
hidden instinct. That takes courage. To control but yet not to control. (Moncy
Barbour) jb</P>
<P>The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding colour and
suspense to all our lives. (Daniel J. Boorstin) vw</P>
<P>...if he will only have the courage of sincerity, taking hold with both hands
and discounting tradition. (Frank Carmichael) gr</P>
<P>The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in
order to keep it. (G. K. Chesterton) sl</P>
<P>Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to
sit down and listen. (Winston Churchill) sl</P>
<P>A man full of courage is also full of faith. (Cicero) sl</P>
<P>Courage is like it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous
acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
(Mary Daly) de</P>
<P>Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since
courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. (Nigel Dennis) sl</P>
<P>Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that?... I don't
see how he kept his canvas dry. (Ruth Draper) sl</P>
<P>A great part of courage is having done the thing before. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
bcm</P>
<P>There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity. If you get away with it, you
are brave. If you don't, you are stupid. (Francisco Escario) sj</P>
<P>Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where
he was. (Richard L. Evans) js</P>
<P>If you're looking for something to be brave about, consider fine arts. (Robert
Frost) nh</P>
<P>Dare to be naive. (Buckminster Fuller) bcm</P>
<P>Why did I hesitate to put all this glory of the sun on my canvas? (Paul Gauguin)
jb</P>
<P>I begin to feel an enormous need to become savage and to create a new world.
(Paul Gauguin) ka</P>
<P>What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? (Vincent Van Gogh)
jfh</P>
<P>Courage is grace under pressure. (Ernest Hemingway) sl</P>
<P>The child is bold. He is not afraid of making mistakes. And he is patient. He
can tolerate an extraordinary amount of uncertainty, confusion, ignorance, and
suspense... (John Holt) lp</P>
<P>The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
(Pauline Kael) sl</P>
<P>Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it
and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure
teaches something, if only what not to do. (Tiko Kerr) sus</P>
<P>Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the
testing point. (C. S. Lewis) js</P>
<P>This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the
victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living
awareness, every drop of the good. (Victoria Lincoln) js</P>
<P>Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. (Raymond Lindquist) bcm</P>
<P>Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. (Clare Boothe Luce)
js</P>
<P>I would kiss you, had I the courage. [letter to Isabelle] (Edouard Manet) sj</P>
<P>The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and
this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he
saw it for the first time. (Henri Matisse) df</P>
<P>Creativity takes courage. (Henri Matisse) jk</P>
<P>Courage is when you do what you have to do though people don't think you can.
Courage is when you think you can't do something, but you do it. (Adam McCord)
sl</P>
<P>It's raining again and once again I have had to put the studies I started to one
side... I am witnessing a complete transformation taking place in Nature, and my
courage is failing as a result. (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>The only cats worth anything are the cats who take chances. Sometimes I play
things that I never heard myself. (Thelonius Monk) ab</P>
<P>With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate
and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. (Keshavan
Nair) sj</P>
<P>Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. (Anais Nin) sj</P>
<P>To create one's own world, in any of the arts, takes courage. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
tm</P>
<P>Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived
and making mistakes. (Camille Pissarro) sj</P>
<P>Without the looming possibility of defeat, glory would lose its taste. (Todd
Plough) ba</P>
<P>A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a
courageous person afterward. (Jean Paul Richter) js</P>
<P>It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn
courage. (Linda Seger) de</P>
<P>A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every
day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first
effort. (Sydney Smith) sl</P>
<P>Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. (Robert Louis
Stevenson) sl</P>
<P>Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. (Robert Louis
Stevenson) js</P>
<P>We all are born into a world that already exists and are brainwashed from the
minute we take our first breath... It's easy to be a follower... It takes courage
to be a good leader. (Helena Tiainen) jb</P>
<P>The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before
them, glory and danger alike, and notwithstanding, go out to meet it. (Thucydides)
gr</P>
<P>Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favours the brave. (Brian
Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Incorrect assumptions lie at the root of every failure. Have the courage to test
your assumptions. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that
procession but carrying a banner. (Mark Twain) sl</P>
<P>Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do
than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. (Mark Twain) sj</P>
<P>This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or
failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. (Vivekananda)
sl</P>
<P>Maintaining a precarious balance on the fine line between success and failure
takes a lot of nerve. (Trevor Winkfield) df</P>
<P>Though nothing can bring back the hour /Of splendor in the grass, or glory in
the flower /We will grieve not, rather find /Strength in what remains behind.
(William Wordsworth) dr</P>
<P>A man shows reckless courage in entering into the abyss of himself. (William
Butler Yeats) ka</P>
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<P><A name=creativity>Creativity</A></P>
<P>Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape
destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force
of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. (Ansel
Adams) js</P>
<P>Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. (Brian W. Aldiss)
bcm</P>
<P>Thought allied fearlessly to purpose becomes creative force. He who knows this
is ready to become something higher and stronger than a bundle of wavering thoughts
and fluctuating sensations. He who does this has become the conscious and
intelligent wielder of his mental powers. (James Allen) ka</P>
<P>The essential ingredient for creativity is wasting time. (Anonymous) df</P>
<P>Creativity does not depend on inherited talent or on environment or upbringing;
it is the function of the ego of every human being. (Silvano Arieti) js</P>
<P>More of your brain is involved when reading than it is when you watch
television... because you are supplying just about everything... you're a creator.
(Margaret Atwood) ab</P>
<P>The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive
and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
(Frank X Barron) df</P>
<P>Creativity is a lifestyle, and ideas are the product and lifeblood of that
lifestyle. (Miles G. Batt) gr</P>
<P>There is no one definitive creative path. There are many ways to be creative
not only intuitive ways but organized, logical ways, too. (Theresa Bayer) ba</P>
<P>Creativity is not a motive, it's simply an attitude of open-mindedness. (Eleanor
Blair) ba</P>
<P>The creative effort is a lot like sex. It's not so much the equipment you have
as what is in your mind. The real excitement and beauty is in what we think and
feel and what we do about it. (Kelly Borsheim) ka</P>
<P>Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I
see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms,
harmonies, and orchestration. (Johannes Brahms) pd</P>
<P>The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
(Van Wyck Brooks) bcm</P>
<P>The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born
abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To them... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a
god, and failure is death. (Pearl S. Buck) de</P>
<P>The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following
laws already made. (Ferruccio Busoni) sj</P>
<P>The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the
mystical union is an experience of creativity. (Julia Cameron) sl</P>
<P>Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through
the green fuse drives the flower.' (Julia Cameron) sl</P>
<P>A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Frank Capra) bcm</P>
<P>The emotional mind creates, and the rational mind explains it. Another way of
saying this is, your 'heart' perceives it and your 'head' translates it. (Alvaro
Castagnet) ka</P>
<P>When I can no longer create anything, I'll be done for. (Coco Chanel) ab</P>
<P>All who are creative, in whatever way, are doing something very important to the
well being of the world. (Sandra Chantry) ab</P>
<P>There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk
about it. You try to think of anecdotes about it, and you try to explain, but
you're never really saying what happened... it's a sort of happy accident. (Betty
Comden) sl</P>
<P>The making of a work of art is a sort of replay of the birth of consciousness
the separation of object from subject, the world from one's self. (Warren Criswell)
ab</P>
<P>It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
(Mary Daly) sj</P>
<P>Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a
blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself
and drag forth from your very soul an idea. (Lou Dorfsman) js</P>
<P>In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a
chain of totally subjective reactions. (Marcel Duchamp) df</P>
<P>From this [drawing], the treasure secretly gathered in your heart will become
evident through your creative work. (Albrecht Durer) ab</P>
<P>In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the
prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) gr</P>
<P>The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) pd</P>
<P>Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and
draw a spark from their juxtaposition. (Max Ernst) df</P>
<P>I guess when we become creative we move our lives onto a different energy flow
or something. (Marnie Evans) sl</P>
<P>Each of us is an artist, capable of conceiving and creating a vision from the
depths of our being. (Dorothy Fadiman) sl</P>
<P>To be truly creative, you have to work beyond what you know. Pushing the
envelope is what being an artist is all about. (John Ferrie) ab</P>
<P>Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you
know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century
ago? (Bernice Fitz-Gibbon) bcm</P>
<P>Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. (Anna
Freud) ih</P>
<P>Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before
one dies. (Erich Fromm) sl</P>
<P>Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict
and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self. (Erich Fromm) sl</P>
<P>Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man. (Naum Gabo) gr</P>
<P>When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything
for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some
day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we
can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. (John W. Gardner)
bcm</P>
<P>Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental
lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal
imagination. (Robert Genn) sj</P>
<P>Creativity is not something you pluck off a shelf, it only becomes evident after
years of practice, experimentation and effort. (Don Getz) rg</P>
<P>As a suffering creature, I cannot do without something greater than I
something that is my life the power to create. (Vincent Van Gogh) ab</P>
<P>Creativity is no big deal. (Natalie Goldberg) df</P>
<P>I never got a job I didn't create for myself. (Ruth Gordon) rg</P>
<P>To be creative, relax and let your mind go to work, otherwise the result is
either a copy of something you did before or reads like an army manual. (Kenneth H.
Gordon-Jr.) js</P>
<P>Creativity is not reliant on limiting access to media. Neither is the use of
media, of new techniques just to "see" what they can do as a form of art... Is the
artist saying something we can hear... no matter what the language? (Cherie Hanson)
ba</P>
<P>You can have no recipe with art. If you follow a recipe, you're negating the
creative act. (Denise Hare) df</P>
<P>The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art
inevitable. (Robert Henri) sl</P>
<P>Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature,
which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual
contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through
which the artist translates his inner world. (Hans Hofmann) df</P>
<P>A representative painting of a mountain is simply a copy of what is reflected on
the eye's retina. A true painting of a mountain is a more or less imperfect record
of what transpires in the soul of the person behind the retina. [on The Group of
Seven] (F. B. Hoosier) sl</P>
<P>Creative activity is more than a mere cultural frill, it is a crucial factor of
human experience, the means of self-revelation, the basis of empathy with others;
it inspires both individualism and responsibility, the giving and the sharing of
experience. (Tom Hudson) df</P>
<P>Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did
something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just
saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. (Steve Jobs) bcm</P>
<P>The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hands to execute.
(Junius) rg</P>
<P>In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting
creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much."
(Pauline Kael) bcm</P>
<P>The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need.
The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could
not live without it. (Louis Kahn) df</P>
<P>The creative process for me unfolds in three stages that I call the search,
focus and application. (Earl Grenville Killeen) gr</P>
<P>The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All
intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative see it before the
fact in the future. (Paul Klee) df</P>
<P>Build Yourself Wings. Fly straight ahead. Walk a straight line. Visit. Leave a
special sign on the door. Make a gift of words. Mark your path with books. With
clothes. With food. Join two distant places. Two rocks. Two people. Bridge a river.
Build a city of sand. Raise up a mound. (Milan Knizak) nb</P>
<P>Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.
(Peter Koestenbaum) sj</P>
<P>The creative ability of an artist is manifested only if he succeeds in
transforming the natural phenomena into 'another reality.' This part of the
creative process as an independent element, if conscious and developed, hints at
the possibility of <I>creating</I> a painting. (Frantisek Kupka) df</P>
<P>Creativity without implementation is irresponsibility. (Ted Leavitt) sj</P>
<P>One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new.
(Harvey Mackay) sl</P>
<P>Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving. (Eric Maisel) ka</P>
<P>Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity. (Eric Maisel) ab</P>
<P>Creativity is a commodity that must be paid for. (Stanley Marcus) nb</P>
<P>Creativity occurs in an act of encounter and is to be understood with this
encounter as its center. (Rollo May) tjb</P>
<P>To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he
may be said to have performed a creative act. (Margaret Mead) df</P>
<P>The great creative individual... is capable of more wisdom and virtue than
collective man ever can be. (John Stuart Mill) sl</P>
<P>I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a
title on it, it becomes even more alive. (Joan Miro) ka</P>
<P>You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it. (Joni Mitchell)
ka</P>
<P>One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's
existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world. (Henri de
Montherlant) js</P>
<P>The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present
moment is where work and play merge. (Stephen Nachmanovich) sj</P>
<P>Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from,
from winter or a river. I don't know how or when... (Pablo Neruda) sj</P>
<P>My work is about rhythm, relationships, continuity with the past... the stuff
beneath the skin of life. I follow the dictum of Anais Nin: 'Create against
destruction.' (Sandra Nickeson) df</P>
<P>You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles
and smooth the way for it. (Kimon Nicolaides) df</P>
<P>It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist,
because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist
can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. (Liam O'Flaherty) df</P>
<P>Creating is a response to the gift of life. (Rosalind Pinsent) ab</P>
<P>Every act of creation is like a newborn child, needing loving care and lots of
attention, consuming your time and energy, and not necessarily profit-making.
(Faith Puleston) ka</P>
<P>Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity
begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully. (Judith Schaechter) ab</P>
<P>Creativity is about intention, expression, and choice... At once cerebral and
yet visceral, it is what you think about in your head and what you feel in your
gut. (Randall Sexton) ka</P>
<P>Each is given a bag of tools, / A shapeless mass and a book of rules; / And each
must make, ere life is flown, / A stumbling block or a stepping stone. (R. L.
Sharpe) rg</P>
<P>Creativity is... seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find
out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God. (Michele
Shea) js</P>
<P>Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. (Gail Sheehy) sl</P>
<P>Creativity is as much about identifying possibilities as it is to do with
flashes of clear direction. (Tony Smibert) ab</P>
<P>A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being
ahead of his generation. (Gertrude Stein) df</P>
<P>...there never was a world for her. Except the one she sang and singing made.
(Wallace Stevens) sj</P>
<P>If you allow creativity to do its work without interruption or distraction,
you'll do a better job. (Peter Suedfeld) ba</P>
<P>The world speaks to me in colours, my soul answers in music. (Rabindranath
Tagore) pd</P>
<P>The thing about creativity is, people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
(Twyla Tharp) sl</P>
<P>Leonardo da Vinci paints only what he sees, but I create. (Arthur Villeneuve)
df</P>
<P>The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in
creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides,
ruins, and awe-inspiring places. (Leonardo da Vinci) df</P>
<P>Creators are hard-driving, focused, dominant, independent risk takers... A
willingness to toil and to tolerate frustration and persist in the face of failure
is crucial. (Ellen Winner) de</P>
<P>To create a lively painting on a dead canvas is like hearing the unheard,
feeling the unseen, painting the absence, moving the unmoveable, speaking to the
silence and bringing it to a meaningful conversation. (Mona Youssef) ab</P>
<P>Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything
possible. (Joseph Zinker) df</P>
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<P>There is no defense against criticism except obscurity. (Joseph Addison) js</P>
<P>A thick skin is a gift from God. (Konrad Adenauer) gr</P>
<P>Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this
revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of
culture. (Theodor W. Adorno) js</P>
<P>If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now. (Fred
Allen) bcm</P>
<P>Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it. If it is unfair, keep from
irritation. It if is ignorant, smile. If it is justified, learn from it.
(Anonymous) lc</P>
<P>I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right shame on you!
(Louis Armstrong) ba</P>
<P>I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn
and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. (Matthew Arnold)
nb</P>
<P>From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who
bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and
secretly at any bad review. (Isaac Asimov) bcm</P>
<P>Some artists keep three feet of personal space between themselves and
constructive criticism. (Jacqueline Baldini) ba</P>
<P>There is less in this than meets the eye. (Tallulah Bankhead) rg</P>
<P>The only crit an artist needs is praise. (Joe Blodgett) rg</P>
<P>These are not works of art at all, unless throwing a handful of mud against a
wall may be called one. They are works of idleness and impotent stupidity, a
pornographic show. [on Post-Impressionist works] (Wilfrid Scawen Blunt) gr</P>
<P>I hear all comments and criticisms around me. I chew on them. I'm nourished by
the ones that I decide work for me and spit out the others. (Kelly Borsheim) ba</P>
<P>Emile Zola, a reporter on L'Evenement, not only had his favourable criticisms
torn and thrown in his face on the street, but actually lost his job because he
dared to defend them [the Impressionists]. (Richard J. Boyle) jb</P>
<P>A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that
others throw at him or her. (David Brinkley) sl</P>
<P>To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap
bubbles. (John Mason Brown) bcm</P>
<P>The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very
fine things. (Jean de La Bruyere) nb</P>
<P>The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you
can cut with a spoon. (Charles Buxton) js</P>
<P>In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation,
not in criticism or commentary. (Albert Camus) bcm</P>
<P>When we criticise another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely
says something about our own need to be critical. (Richard Carlson) js</P>
<P>By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece. (Miguel de Cervantes) bcm</P>
<P>The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent
observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often
causes a painting to deviate from its true path the concrete study of nature to
lose itself all too long in intangible speculations. (Paul Cezanne) ba</P>
<P>No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one
who's giving it. (Hal Chadwick) bcm</P>
<P>When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a
tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. (Marc Chagall) sl</P>
<P>An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited
as that of any other specialist... Anyone who says that the artist's field is all
answers and no questions has neither. (Anton Chekhov) bcm</P>
<P>A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: 'Of course
I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.' (G. K. Chesterton)
nb</P>
<P>I do not at all resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it for a
time parts company with reality. (Winston Churchill) bcm</P>
<P>Degas is nothing but a peeping Tom, behind the <I>coulisses</I>; and among the
dressing-rooms of the ballet dancers, noting only travesties of fallen debased
womanhood, most disgusting and offensive. (The Churchman 1886) gr</P>
<P>Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without
destroying his roots. (Frank A. Clark) bcm</P>
<P>One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The
self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. (Charles Horton Cooley) js</P>
<P>I love criticism just so long as it is unqualified praise. (Noel Coward) bcm</P>
<P>Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You
may both be wrong. (Dandemis) bcm</P>
<P>Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of
painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they
could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.
(Eugene Delacroix) df</P>
<P>Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been
said and doesn't get out of its rut. (Eugene Delacroix) jb</P>
<P>Criticism is easy, art is difficult. (Destouches) bcm</P>
<P>It is much easier to be critical than correct. (Benjamin Disraeli) lc</P>
<P>The soul that is within me no man can degrade. (Frederick Douglas) js</P>
<P>Come mothers and fathers / Throughout the land / And don't criticize / What you
don't understand. (Bob Dylan) bcm</P>
<P>Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. (Max Ehrmann) js</P>
<P>Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at them
because you know it would hurt their feelings. (Eight-year-old) rr</P>
<P>It was also a practice with him, when he had completed a work, to exhibit it to
the view of the passersby in his studio, while he himself, concealed behind the
picture, would listen to the criticisms... (Pliny the Elder) sj</P>
<P>We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that
we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read
a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of
criticism. (T. S. Eliot) vw</P>
<P>The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-
page. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) ba</P>
<P>Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you
are wrong. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but
guiding, instructive, inspiring. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. (Errol Flynn) gr</P>
<P>It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
(Miles Franklin) bcm</P>
<P>All their pictures look pretty much alike, the net result being more like a
garble or gob of porridge than a work of art. [on the Group of Seven] (H. F.
Gadsby) gr</P>
<P>Criticism and art, like theology and religion, are basically companions but not
always friends. At times they may be enemies. (John Champlin Gardner) bcm</P>
<P>We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect. (Robert Genn)
jb</P>
<P>You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve
it. (W. S. Gilbert) ba</P>
<P>We have as yet no socially based art criticism which can address the inherent
irresponsibility of the work of art. (Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe) df</P>
<P>Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad
seamanship. (Susan Glaspell) rg</P>
<P>If I believed what they wrote, I'd have slit my wrists a long time ago. (William
Goldman) ka</P>
<P>He's still as ugly as ever. There are images of his that set you back on your
feet. They flatten you like you haven't been flattened for awhile. I'm trying to
say that he can't be totally appropriated because he says something about the
nature of existence which we don't like to acknowledge. [on Caravaggio] (Leon
Golub) gr</P>
<P>A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in
the world. (Edmond and Jules De Goncourt) sl</P>
<P>The criticisms... by old women and others are noted. You may inform these people
that the Negro did not starve to death. He was not eaten by the sharks. The
waterspout did not hit him. And he was rescued by a passing ship. [letter to his
dealer on the painting 'Gulf Stream'] (Winslow Homer) jb</P>
<P>To escape criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard)
rg</P>
<P>When looking at faults, use a mirror, not a telescope. (Yazid Ibrahim) bcm</P>
<P>It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I
was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on
the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren
Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was
accused of something perilously close to treason his paintings, said his severest
critics, were discouraging immigration. (A. Y. Jackson) sl</P>
<P>He has chosen the least pictorial features of the least pictorial range of
scenery and civilization; he has resolutely treated them as if they were pictorial,
as if they were every inch as good as Capri or Tangiers; and, to reward his
audacity, he has incontestably succeeded. (Henry James on Winslow Homer) jb</P>
<P>A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an
insect, and the other is a horse still. (Samuel Johnson) nb</P>
<P>Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at a very small
expense. (Samuel Johnson) gr</P>
<P>There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it
their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who
stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving
Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey. (Samuel Johnson) jb</P>
<P>Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an
acquaintance or a stranger. (Franklin Jones) js</P>
<P>From how I breathe, literally, to whether or not a piece of art is "crap," the
kid will speak. (Julie Rodriguez Jones) ba</P>
<P>Why don't you write books people can read? [to her husband James] (Nora Joyce)
js</P>
<P>A "scream" is always just that a noise and not music. (Carl Jung on Pablo
Picasso) sl</P>
<P>If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be
pitied and the viewer praised. (Rockwell Kent) sl</P>
<P>I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the
thoughtless approval of the masses. (Johann Kepler) bcm</P>
<P>Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way,
when you criticize them, you're a mile away. And you have their shoes. (J. K.
Lambert) ab</P>
<P>A preliminary drawing for a wallpaper pattern is more highly finished than this
seascape. [on "Impression, Sunrise" by Monet in the first Impressionist exhibition]
(Louis Leroy) tm</P>
<P>I cried all the way to the bank. [when asked whether he minded being criticized]
(Liberace) nb</P>
<P>If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop
may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and
if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end
result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the
difference. (Abraham Lincoln) js</P>
<P>Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the
wind. (Hamilton Mabie) lt</P>
<P>If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to
understand what the artist saw. (J. E. H. MacDonald) gr</P>
<P>Whata do thesea alla have ina common? Crap! They're all crap! [quoting her
Drawing 101 teacher in students' critique] (Mary Madsen) ba</P>
<P>You're there to be shot at, and that's part of it. (Norman Mailer) ka</P>
<P>Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise
artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes. (Eric Maisel) jb</P>
<P>The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in
me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted. (Edouard
Manet) jb</P>
<P>Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. (Edouard Manet) sl</P>
<P>Art sunk so low does not even deserve reproach. (critic on 'Olympia' by Edouard
Manet) jb</P>
<P>You're on very good terms with Renoir and take an interest in his future do
advise him to give up painting! You can see for yourself that it's not his
<I>metier</I> at all. [to Claude Monet] (Edouard Manet) gr</P>
<P>I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavourable circumstances the
curtains were up. (Groucho Marx) js</P>
<P>If you hear a voice within you saying, "You are not a painter," then by all
means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced. (Henri Matisse) sl</P>
<P>While I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right,
assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me
to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism,
regardless of its source. (Henri Matisse) jb</P>
<P>It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by
praise. (W. Somerset Maugham) js</P>
<P>If I can't put the critical comment into an esthetically adequate form, I don't
make the comment. (Philip McCracken) df</P>
<P>Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, / Words can sting
like anything but silence breaks the heart. (Phyllis McGinley) js</P>
<P>Criticism is prejudice made plausible. (H. L. Mencken) js</P>
<P>Father the Bishop of Salisbury. At his especial request the small piece of blue
sky was inserted as making it a more suitable marriage gift than the cloudy skies
usual in his Pictures. [note found tucked between the canvas and the
stretcher,1877] (E. Mirehouse) gr</P>
<P>An explorer doesn't chart a lake and then note that it would be more suitable if
located 300 miles to the east. Instead, the explorer describes just what is found.
(Diana Mohrsen) pd</P>
<P>Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind,
but that's just too bad... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I
don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open
to criticism; that's enough. (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>While we sketched from a model, Gleyre criticized my work: "It is not too bad,"
he said, "but the breast is heavy, the shoulder is too powerful, and the foot too
big." I can only draw what I see, I replied timidly. (Claude Monet) gr</P>
<P>It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more
like you blurt something out and then analyze it. (Robert Motherwell) js</P>
<P>Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
(Napoleon) js</P>
<P>When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his
fingers are pointing at himself. (Louis Nizer) js</P>
<P>He wrote nearly a quire of utter nonsense. Fortunately he has forgotten all
about it now, and I shall burn it after I show it to you. He said it was his
greatest work. [wife of Robert Louis Stevenson,letter to a friend on first draft of
'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'] (Fanny Osbourne) ab</P>
<P>It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily
than we do in our own. (Pablo Picasso) sl</P>
<P>Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism.
No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour. (Walter J.
Phillips) gr</P>
<P>There was a reviewer... who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or
any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It was a fine compliment.
(Jackson Pollock) mb</P>
<P>Don't ignore the request to critique someone's art. It was often a hard one to
make. Silence always sends a negative message to a fragile ego. (Andrea Pratt)
ba</P>
<P>Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake and of
the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. (Chinese
proverb) lc</P>
<P>There once was a sculptor of mark, / Who was chosen to brighten Hyde Park; /
Some thought his design / Most uncommonly fine, / But more like it best in the
dark. [on Jacob Epstein's 'Rima', 1925] (Punch) gr</P>
<P>Don't take my criticisms as iron-clad rules but more as suggestions. (Howard
Pyle) jb</P>
<P>I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to
the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open
and read. (Rainer Maria Rilke) nb</P>
<P>Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.
(Eleanor Roosevelt) sl</P>
<P>Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
sl</P>
<P>I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've
got the benefit of all my doubts. (Charles Rosin) js</P>
<P>Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. (Gioacchino
Rossini) vw</P>
<P>In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue
until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always
putting down everybody else's artwork. (Jim Rowe) ab</P>
<P>Criticism polishes my mirror. (Rumi) svb</P>
<P>If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. (Donald Rumsfeld) js</P>
<P>Vuillard balances too far on the side of fantasy... the people in his pictures
are not properly defined. As he's an admirable draughtsman it must be that he just
doesn't want to give them mouths and hands and feet. (Paul Signac) gr</P>
<P>I do not judge, I only chronicle. (John Singer Sargent on his own art and
subjects) sl</P>
<P>The truth is that I don't like rehearsals. I get embarrassed hearing my own
work. I assume that the cast is embarrassed to sing the stuff. (Stephen Sondheim)
ba</P>
<P>I don't object against the light tree trunks in the distance of the paintings,
only if your tree trunk in the foreground would be a little darker than those in
the distance, it would be easier to overlook the painting. I hope you don't mind my
criticisms in this way. If you allow me, I may tone the tree down a bit. (Max Stern
to E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
<P>What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine.
Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can mercilessly erase things thought
out with love. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) ba</P>
<P>We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we
can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism... (Wayne
Thiebaud) jb</P>
<P>Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion what a man
thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate. (Henry
David Thoreau) js</P>
<P>According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look
at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. (Mark Tobey)
df</P>
<P>Bonnat tells me: "Your painting isn't bad, it is 'chic,' but even so it isn't
bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious." So I must gather my courage and
start once again... (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) gr</P>
<P>Assassins! [to his orchestra] (Arturo Toscanini) sl</P>
<P>I can live for two months on one good compliment. (Mark Twain) lc</P>
<P>For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (unknown) bcm</P>
<P>They are a form of statuary which no careful father would wish his daughter, or
no discriminating young man, his fiancee to see... [on Jacob Epstein's Strand
Statues, 1908] (Father Bernard Vaughan) gr</P>
<P>When you paint look at your work in a mirror; when you see it reversed, it will
appear to you like some other painter's work and you will be a better judge of its
faults. (Leonardo da Vinci) gr</P>
<P>Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgement of our work. We derive
more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing
the opinions of friends. (Leonardo da Vinci) jb</P>
<P>As far as criticism is concerned, we don't resent that unless it is absolutely
biased, as it is in most cases. (John Vorster) nb</P>
<P>All his own geese are swans, as the swans of others are geese. (Horace Walpole
on Sir Joshua Reynolds) jb</P>
<P>I am a deeply superficial person. (Andy Warhol) ab</P>
<P>I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. (Booker T.
Washington) em</P>
<P>You learn more from a critique if you are given negatives rather than
positives... "You have a nice painting. I think you have succeeded," tells a
student nothing... (Annette Waterbeek) ab</P>
<P>To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and
earnest labour is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. (James Abbot
McNeill Whistler) jb</P>
<P>Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his
cause, "What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?" (James
Abbot McNeill Whistler) nb</P>
<P>These so-called artists style themselves Intransigeants, Impressionists... They
throw a few colours on to the canvas at random, and then they sign the lot. (Albert
Wolff) jb</P>
<P>Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. (William Butler Yeats) sl</P>
<P>Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship. (Zeuxis) rg</P>
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<P><A name=critics>Critics</A></P>
<P>A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to
discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such
things as are worth their observation. (Joseph Addison) js</P>
<P>The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a
comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. (Nelson Algren)
bcm</P>
<P>A critic is a legless man who teaches running. (Anonymous) nb</P>
<P>A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
(Whitney Balliett) bcm</P>
<P>They are quite hopeless-drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical
drips. [on music critics] (Thomas Beecham) sl</P>
<P>Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it
done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. (Brendan Behan) bcm</P>
<P>critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to
please him. (Ambrose Bierce) em</P>
<P>I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive,
is the function of the critic. (Clive Bell) nb</P>
<P>Do not be an art critic, but paint, therein lies salvation. (Cezanne to Emile
Bernard) ba</P>
<P>A man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure critics all are ready
made. (Lord Byron) nb</P>
<P>When I abuse the language, I call it 'art' and call myself an artist; when you
abuse the language, I call it 'wrong,' call myself a critic, and assume an air of
unimpeachable authority. (Fennec A. Churl) bcm</P>
<P>Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets... (Samuel Taylor
Coleridge) nb</P>
<P>Let my enemies devour each other. (Salvador Dali) sl</P>
<P>A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.
(Tyne Daly) ru</P>
<P>They call me the painter of dancers. They don't understand that the dancer has
been for me a pretext for painting pretty fabrics and for rendering movement.
(Edgar Degas) jb</P>
<P>I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my
heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece. (Jim Dine) jb</P>
<P>A non-doer is very often a critic that is, someone who sits back and watches
doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to
be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change. (Wayne Dyer)
hw</P>
<P>Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but
sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have
done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did. (Duke Ellington)
bcm</P>
<P>Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has
imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. (Henry
Fielding) nb</P>
<P>Every critic will see something different. (Hans Frabell) df</P>
<P>A good critic is one who narrates the adventures of his mind among masterpieces.
(Anatole France) nb</P>
<P>I sometimes think / His critical judgement is so exquisite / It leaves us
nothing to admire except his opinion. (Christopher Fry) nb</P>
<P>A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never
able to find them. (Richard Le Gallienne) bcm</P>
<P>A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.
(Paul Gauguin) jb</P>
<P>Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic the one who does not
swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before...
howling is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults:
don't be afraid, don't tremble the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even
brain: it is stuffed... (Paul Gauguin) jb</P>
<P>When I stay in the present the inner critic disappears. (Susan Geddes) ab</P>
<P>Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say
about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion. (Robert Genn)
jb</P>
<P>Talk to your inner critics. Find out what they have to say about you. In most
cases, when you hear how extreme and absurd their criticisms are, it will be easier
to dismiss them. (Sharon Good) de</P>
<P>They never raised a statue to a critic. (Martha Graham) ih</P>
<P>Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post
how it feels about dogs. (Christopher Hampton) nb</P>
<P>What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic
spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe and all is gone. (Thomas Hood) nb</P>
<P>I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
(E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
<P>Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and
everything for yourself. (Henry James) bcm</P>
<P>There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it
their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who
stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving
Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey. (Samuel Johnson) nb</P>
<P>Every man can exert such judgment as he has upon the works of others; and he
whom Nature has made weak, and Idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity
by the name of a Critic. (Samuel Johnson) gr</P>
<P>You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter
who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. (Samuel Johnson)
jb</P>
<P>Dance like nobody's watching. (Joseph Joubert) ak</P>
<P>The best critic needn't be right, just interesting. (Walter Kirn) ba</P>
<P>It takes a day or two to leave the critic at the door before we can truly
explore. (Antoinette Ledzian) ba</P>
<P>I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic
position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists...
I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer. (Lucy Lippard) df</P>
<P>We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by
what we have already done. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) bcm</P>
<P>A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. (James Russell
Lowell) bcm</P>
<P>I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book.
(Groucho Marx) nb</P>
<P>A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human
spirit. (Cecil Blount de Mille) bcm</P>
<P>Every time I make a picture the critic's estimate of American public taste goes
down another ten percent. (Cecil Blount de Mille) bcm</P>
<P>I despise the opinion of the press and the so-called critics. (Claude Monet)
jb</P>
<P>No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two
opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at
different times. (Michel de Montaigne) sl</P>
<P>The lot of critics is to be remembered for what they failed to understand.
(George Moore) gr</P>
<P>After all his literary efforts had come to nought and he had to wear dark
glasses, he became an art critic. (Edvard Munch) jb</P>
<P>Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same
with critics they desire our blood, not our pain. (Friedrich Nietzsche) nb</P>
<P>I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make
up my own mind about it how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that the
critics can write what they please. (Georgia O'Keeffe) sl</P>
<P>It is better to get written up in the social columns than in the art critic's
reviews. (Charles Pachter) sl</P>
<P>Submit your work to interested societies for exhibition where the critics in the
light of their physical well-being and according to the extent of their knowledge,
may appraise them conveniently. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged not the critics or
the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental
rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will
not be bullied. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged
work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment The critic is in demand, but
he must be competent. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist Heaven forgive
them but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the
correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all
artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips. (Walter J.
Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Nor in the critic let the man be lost. (Alexander Pope) nb</P>
<P>Don't share your opinion on an artist's work with others until they have
achieved some measure of "objective" success. (Andrea Pratt) ba</P>
<P>The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written,
would find nothing to write. (J. B. Priestley) nb</P>
<P>It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;
because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually
strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who
spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring
greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know
neither victory nor defeat. (Theodore Roosevelt) dr</P>
<P>You can lead a fool to a book, but you can't make them think. (J. K. Rowlings)
sj</P>
<P>The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with
him. (John Ruskin) gr</P>
<P>Never to go overboard for an unknown artist is a sign of bad character in a
critic. (John Russell) gr</P>
<P>When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about
it, it's sublime. (Charles Saatchi) js</P>
<P>For I am nothing if not critical. (William Shakespeare) nb</P>
<P>A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. (George Bernard Shaw)
sl</P>
<P>Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in
meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only
to other critics and their ilk. (Brian Sewell) gr</P>
<P>I had a dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like
with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya. (Igor
Stravinsky) nb</P>
<P>Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough
on others. He expected the finest. (Wayne Thiebaud) gr</P>
<P>Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000
critics. (Mark Twain) js</P>
<P>A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. (Kenneth Tynan)
nb</P>
<P>The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the
glass. (unknown) ab</P>
<P>Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those doing it.
(unknown) js</P>
<P>Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty
neck. (Eli Wallach) js</P>
<P>Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
(Andy Warhol) jb</P>
<P>Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic a temperament exquisitely
susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. (Oscar
Wilde) js</P>
<P>Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They
always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece because masterpieces make their
own rules. (Robert Anton Wilson) djs</P>
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<P><A name=cubism>Cubism</A></P>
<P>Let them eat their fill of their square pears on their triangular tables! [on
Cubism] (Marc Chagall) ba</P>
<P>Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't
been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its
importance would have been diminished. (David Hockney) mb</P>
<P>Cubism is like standing at a certain point on a mountain and looking around. If
you go higher, things will look different; if you go lower, again they will look
different. It is a point of view. (Jacques Lipchitz) sl</P>
<P>In Cubism, in the end what was important is what one wanted to do, the intention
one had. And that one cannot paint. (Pablo Picasso) js</P>
<P>The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a
method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the
useful nor the useless. (Pablo Picasso) sl</P>
<P>If my husband ever met a woman on the street who looked like one of his
paintings he would faint. (Jacqueline Roque, wife of Pablo Picasso) sl</P>
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<P><A name=culture>Culture</A></P>
<P>Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. (John Abbott)
js</P>
<P>You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion but none have really walked
alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history,
their culture, and their values. (Peter Abrahams) ba</P>
<P>We are not just a country of war or oil. We are a proud culture that goes back
6,000 years to the Sumerians. We have been making art for longer than anyone. This
is what gives us identity. This is what will make our art last another 1,000 years,
when all this war is forgotten. (Qasim Al-Sabti) js</P>
<P>Artists create identities for cultures and societies. (Anonymous) df</P>
<P>Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in
the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. (Matthew Arnold) gr</P>
<P>Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and what is more, the passion
for making them prevail. (Matthew Arnold) gr</P>
<P>No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price
for it. (James Baldwin) bcm</P>
<P>Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex. (Ruth Benedict) rg</P>
<P>No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a
definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. (Ruth Fulton
Benedict) bcm</P>
<P>Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in
proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish! (William
Blake) bcm</P>
<P>We are no longer dependant on what New York, Paris, Rome or L.A. says about
culture and art. We have become both international and regional at the same time.
(Linda Blondheim) ab</P>
<P>I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly
under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity. (Earle
Brown) sl</P>
<P>Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when
perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the
future. (Albert Camus) gr</P>
<P>Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order
is also. (Charles Horton Cooley) js</P>
<P>To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see
them in a word, to create a living art this has been my aim. (Gustave Courbet)
rg</P>
<P>Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces
at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social
character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social
emancipation. (Angela Davis) sl</P>
<P>I am sure that only art will bring together all the peoples of the world.
(Ousmane Dia) sn</P>
<P>In every human society of which we know prehistoric, ancient or modern,
whether hunter-gatherer, pastoral, agricultural or industrial at least some form
of art is displayed, and not only displayed, but highly regarded and willingly
engaged in. (Ellen Disanayake) df</P>
<P>Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. (Henry Van
Dyke) js</P>
<P>Competition among rival groups of "primitive" people pushed artisans into new
heights of complexity, i.e., art. (Lloyd Dykk) ba</P>
<P>Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it,
but somehow it does something. (Hans Magnus Enzensberger) sl</P>
<P>The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to
read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis
consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture? (Jonathan Franzen)
bcm</P>
<P>No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. (Mahatma Gandhi) bcm</P>
<P>The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture. (Jose Ortega y
Gasset) bcm</P>
<P>Whoever controls the media the images controls the culture. (Allen Ginsberg)
bcm</P>
<P>All art is an individual's expression of a culture. Cultures differ, so art
looks different. (Henry Glassie) tm</P>
<P>Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of
everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a
nation. (Thor Hansen) tm</P>
<P>If you see in any given situation only what everyone else can see, you can be
said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
(S. I. Hayakawa) bcm</P>
<P>Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.
(Elbert Hubbard) bcm</P>
<P>What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture. (Robert
Hughes) df</P>
<P>If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free
to follow his vision wherever it takes him. (John F. Kennedy) df</P>
<P>The process of immersing myself in other cultures has become the most intensely
emotional artistic experience of my life. (Glen Knowles) gr</P>
<P>The artist has to be a guardian of the culture. (Robert Longo) ka</P>
<P>I want to investigate different cultures, to see how their identities and values
affect their music. It's one way I can get to know our world, at least to a certain
depth. (Yo-Yo Ma) ba</P>
<P>In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group
already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
(Andre Malraux) df</P>
<P>Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his
head. It is the real subject, of which everything he paints is both an homage and a
critique, and everything he says is a gloss. (Robert Motherwell) df</P>
<P>May we, as image makers, shapers of the culture, set our sights on things we
value, rituals we engage in that heal and serve. May our images honor the ordinary
endeavors of common people, and may they make their way to the eyes of the weary
light to the dark, fire to the chill. (Jan Phillips) sl</P>
<P>We have only two ways to react to creative people in this culture; we either
worship them or we're jealous. (Albert Rothenberg) df</P>
<P>The artist is the record keeper of present time and keeper of timeless culture.
(Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) ab</P>
<P>Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of
their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. (John Ruskin)
js</P>
<P>A poor thing, perhaps, but my own. (William Shakespeare) rg</P>
<P>If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to
do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. (Henry
David Thoreau) vw</P>
<P>The best art intersects the culture it exists in, rather than critiques it.
(Meyer Vaisman) df</P>
<P>Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who
when their turn comes, will manufacture professors. (Simone Weil) rg</P>
<P>Listen! There never was an artistic period. There never was an Art-loving
nation. (James Abbot McNeill Whistler) gr</P>
<P>Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. (Thomas Wolfe) js</P>
<P>Cultural activity and access to the materials of the life of the imagination is
as ordinary and as vital as the right to read, the right to shelter, squarely at
the centre of our lives as the catalyst of our imaginations and the prompter of our
dreams. (Max Wyman) ba</P>
<P>We are in the process of a cultural revolution under global culturalism. (Gu
Xiong) ab</P>
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<P><A name=curiosity>Curiosity</A></P>
<P>When curiosity is alive, we are attracted to many things; we discover many
worlds. (Eric Booth) js</P>
<P>The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is
curiosity. (Edmund Burke) js</P>
<P>He is so childlike in his laughter. In his curiosity. He gets excited about
things most of us are too jaded to notice. He is really different. (Victor Chan on
the Dalai Lama) ba</P>
<P>I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being
taught. (Winston Churchill) sj</P>
<P>Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more
than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. (Clarence Day) js</P>
<P>Wolves are hunters; they are adaptable with eyes that absorb their landscape. Be
like the wolf. Fascinating and alive with curiosity. (Michael Duncan) ba</P>
<P>I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. (Albert Einstein)
vw</P>
<P>Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he
contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of
reality. (Albert Einstein) js</P>
<P>The child is curious. He wants to make sense out of things, find out how things
work, gain competence and control over himself and his environment, and do what he
can see other people doing. He is open, perceptive, and experimental. (John Holt)
lp</P>
<P>We are no more than God's curiosity about himself. (Thomas Mann) df</P>
<P>I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is,
namely, exact information of how to rearrange one's psyche in order to anticipate
the next blow from our own extended faculties... (Marshall McLuhan) df</P>
<P>The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. (Ellen Parr)
sg</P>
<P>One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too
curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
(Alexander Pope) pd</P>
<P>Kids are curious. Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. (Jim
Rohn) hh</P>
<P>At the birth of a child, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it
with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
rg</P>
<P>Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (James Stephens) nb</P>
<P>Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
(Richard Whately) js</P>
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<P><A name=danger>Danger</A></P>
<P>The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred
Adler) bcm</P>
<P>Prejudice is always dangerous. (Sister Wendy Beckett) mb</P>
<P>Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions that when it ceases to be
dangerous you don't want it. (Anthony Burgess) sl</P>
<P>Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than
riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I
do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net! (David Cobley) ab</P>
<P>Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. (Marcel Duchamp) df</P>
<P>In danger there is great power. (Agnes Whistling Elk) rg</P>
<P>In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
nb</P>
<P>Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Harry Emerson
Fosdick) lrp</P>
<P>A danger foreseen is half avoided. (Thomas Fuller) lc</P>
<P>Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same
models and approximately the same path? (Theodore Gericault) gr</P>
<P>The fisherman knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they
have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for staying ashore. (Vincent Van
Gogh) df</P>
<P>Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in
which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
(Ernest Hemingway) nb</P>
<P>It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times
doing. (E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
<P>The incumbent hazards lent the activity [mountain climbing] a seriousness of
purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. (Jon Krakaur) js</P>
<P>I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an
uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to
throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. (Henry Miller)
df</P>
<P>I was hard at work beneath the cliff... In short, absorbed as I was, I didn't
see a huge wave coming; it threw me against the cliff and I was tossed about... My
immediate thought was that I was done for... the palette which I had kept a grip on
had been knocked over my face and my beard was covered in blue, yellow etc.... the
worst of it was that I lost my painting which was very soon broken up... everything
was torn to shreds by the sea... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>A mad panic has swept our area... As for myself, I'm staying here regardless and
if those savages insist on killing me, they'll have to do it in the midst of my
paintings, before my life's work. [Giverny, September 1, 1914] (Claude Monet)
ba</P>
<P>The greatest temptation and danger is to rely on previous solutions and thus
paint the same picture for the rest of your life. (Charles Movalli) rg</P>
<P>My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping
from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling
mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the
chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.
(Edvard Munch) jb</P>
<P>Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest
enjoyment from life is to <I>live dangerously</I>. (Friedrich Nietzsche) nb</P>
<P>There's more danger in the violence you don't face. (Michael Ondaatje) ba</P>
<P>Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because
we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our
midst. (Pablo Picasso) sl</P>
<P>A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. (Pablo
Picasso) df</P>
<P>My art is about paying attention about the extremely dangerous possibility
that you might be art. (Robert Rauschenberg) mb</P>
<P>Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone
through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further.
(Rainer Maria Rilke) jb</P>
<P>Resolve says, "I will." The man says, "I will climb this mountain. They told me
it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my
mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the
side from trying. (Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to
confront and disarm it. (Sir Walter Scott) js</P>
<P>What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough. (Kazuaki Tanahashi) df</P>
<P>Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger. (Lao-Tzu) rg</P>
<P>I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very
seductive and a little dangerous. [to her daughter, the Crown Princess of Prussia,
1901] (Queen Victoria) sl</P>
<P>I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment
on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... (Thornton Wilder) js</P>
<P>The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned
portrait painters who develop a methodology. (Jamie Wyeth) ba</P>
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<P><A name=dealers>Dealers</A></P>
<P>To the big-city high-powered galleries demanding exclusivity, my argument is: if
you want to be the only agent who sells my work, you must guarantee me a minimum
annual income. So far, no one has been willing to do that. (Eleanor Blair) ba</P>
<P>Galleries are the place to see artists before they hit the museums. Good
gallerists are innovators who recognize talent and support that. But it's important
to remember that the public is a key part of this. (Caryn Coleman) js</P>
<P>No great collection was ever formed without a dealer. (Gil Edelson) js </P>
<P>Dealers should not import, export, or transfer the ownership of a work of art
where they have reasonable cause to believe that it has been stolen. (Gil Edelson)
js</P>
<P>However innocent or careful the dealer may have been, no dealer would welcome
the inevitable conflict with a good client turned irate on discovering that he or
she had been sold a stolen work. (Gil Edelson) js</P>
<P>It seems that the Internet is the wave of the future and the gallery will become
obsolete. (John Ferrie) ab</P>
<P>Galleries are displaying a product. They're not museums. People shouldn't feel
intimidated. (Nohra Haime) js</P>
<P>One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a
great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which
allows me a lot more time for painting. [to Max Stern] (E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
<P>The best artist/gallery relationship is symbiotic in the sense that it should be
to our mutual benefit. (Katherine McLean) ab</P>
<P>I'm working hard with more determination than ever. My success at the Salon led
to my selling several paintings and since your absence I have made 800 francs; I
hope, when I have contracts with more dealers, it will be better still. [to Amand
Gautier] (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>My aim is to give you only the things with which I am completely satisfied, even
if it means asking you a little more [time] for them... for if I were to do
otherwise I'd turn into a mere painting machine and you would be landed with a pile
of incomplete work which would put off the most enthusiastic of art collectors...
[to Paul Durand-Ruel] (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>Surely you already have a fair number? You do, it's true, keep them cleverly
hidden, since they're never on display, which in my opinion is a mistake: what's
the point of us painting pictures if the public never gets to see them? [to Paul
Durand-Ruel] (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before
becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold
their own shows. (oliver) ab</P>
<P>Of course, the artist must have galleries usual ones or the Internet kind it
is just important that people see the artist's works. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) ab</P>
<P>When you see something special, something inspired, you realise the debt we owe
great curators and their unforgettable shows literally unforgettable because you
remember every picture, every wall and every juxtaposition. (Charles Saatchi)
js</P>
<P>Painting is an art, selling is a business. Therefore, it makes economic sense
that artists and galleries need each other. (Jo Scott-B) ab</P>
<P>No man will work for your interests unless they are his. (David Seabury) lc</P>
<P>When the gallery sells, I pay them a commission for the sale. They get money
when they do their job. It's human nature to want to hang onto money that you have
in your hand. Artists are in the weaker position. (Lori Woodward Simons) ka</P>
<P>It takes a long time and great expense to build up the name of an artist and if
one of his paintings suddenly appears at a low price at an exhibition especially,
then the build up may be endangered. (Max Stern) ka</P>
<P>We need to have a focused and coherent work presence in any given gallery. If
you are in the groove doing your best work in a preferred medium and style with
subject matter you know well, then just keep painting and showing... it will break
for you. (Richard Tomkinson) ab</P>
<P>A good artist/gallery relationship will ensure that the buyer is kept abreast of
the artist's development in an effort to maintain an interest in the artist. (Chris
Tyrell) ba</P>
<P>It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store
where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The
salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer. (Jack White) ba</P>
<P>Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a
mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated
about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a
purchase. (Sylvia White) js</P>
<P>Galleries come and go for many reasons so you must assume that you will have to
replace one of ten galleries every year or two. (Dan Young) ka</P>
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<P><A name=deception>Deception</A></P>
<P>Appearances are often deceiving. (Aesop) js</P>
<P>If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of
distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.
(Francis Bacon) df</P>
<P>All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as
he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been. (Sister Wendy Beckett
on Salvador Dali) mb</P>
<P>Art is the most beautiful of all lies. (Claude Debussy) lt</P>
<P>'Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It
must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means. (Edgar Degas)
jb</P>
<P>A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as
the commission of a crime. (Edgar Degas) df</P>
<P>In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false. (Edgar
Degas) ab</P>
<P>It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
(Anatole France) ka</P>
<P>The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than
it really is. (Kahlil Gibran) js</P>
<P>Audubon biographers and scholars [have noted], by various euphemisms, that all
great men have their flaws, and their man's principal flaw was that he, well, he
lied a lot. (Bil Gilbert on John James Audubon) sl</P>
<P>He who knows a thousand works of art knows a thousand frauds. (Horace) js</P>
<P>The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. (Max
Jacob) sl</P>
<P>Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he
does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. (Samuel Johnson)
nb</P>
<P>You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the
time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time. (Abraham Lincoln) nb</P>
<P>I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light
joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
(Henri Matisse) sl</P>
<P>What one has most to work and struggle for in painting is to do the work with a
great amount of labour and sweat in such a way that it may afterwards appear,
however much it was laboured upon, to have been done almost quickly and almost
without any labour, and very easily, although it was not. (Michelangelo) ba</P>
<P>It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
(Robert Motherwell) ka</P>
<P>Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well
deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. (Pablo Picasso)
sl</P>
<P>Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to
understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the
truthfulness of his lies. If he only shows in his work that he has searched, and
researched, for the way to put over lies, he would never accomplish anything.
(Pablo Picasso) nb</P>
<P>Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. (Plato) ba</P>
<P>False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (William Shakespeare)
nb</P>
<P>When you meet triumph or disaster, treat these imposters alike. (Alfred, Lord
Tennyson) ab</P>
<P>You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. (James Thurber) nb</P>
<P>Deceit... is what art does best. (Meyer Vaisman) df</P>
<P>Paul Gauguin may have done it... the weight of evidence... is overwhelming.
Everything we know about what happened is from Gauguin. But Gauguin was an
inveterate liar. He was also armed. [on Van Gogh's severed ear] (Rita Wildegans)
ba</P>
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<P><A name=depression>Depression</A></P>
<P>I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does
go on, and it will be better tomorrow. (Maya Angelou) dm</P>
<P>Keep painting your demons. (Jack Beal) df</P>
<P>In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.
(Albert Camus) js</P>
<P>May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world
knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with
myself. (Max Ehrmann) js</P>
<P>Every act of life, from the morning toothbrush to the friend at dinner, became
an effort. I hated the night when I couldn't sleep and I hated the day because it
went toward night. (F. Scott Fitzgerald) ba</P>
<P>Depression needs to lift and clutter needs to disband. Even these two elements
serve a purpose in the path to a new piece of work. Clutter meets clutter, and
creates a spark. In the lull of a dark cloud and sedate thought, images come. (Gail
Griffiths) ab</P>
<P>What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand. (Winslow
Homer) jb</P>
<P>To some degree depression is a function of unconscious anger. Pay attention to
your angry feelings. Don't feel guilty about them. (Steve Hovland) ba</P>
<P>My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break
occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that
there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. (Lee Krasner) df</P>
<P>The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is
by its nature prone to depression. (Eric Maisel) ab</P>
<P>Just remember that the darkest night did not turn out all the stars. (Louis L.
Mann) lt</P>
<P>Depression is anger slowed down; panic is grief speeded up. (Ann-Marie McDonald)
cw</P>
<P>I am very depressed and deeply disgusted with painting. It is really a continual
torture. (Claude Monet) rg</P>
<P>To have gone to all this trouble to get to this is just too stupid! Outside
there's brilliant sunshine but I don't feel up to looking at it... (Claude Monet)
ba</P>
<P>I have not worked at all... Nothing seems worth putting down I seem to have
nothing to say it appalls me but that is the way it is. (Georgia O'Keeffe) df</P>
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<P><A name=design>Design</A></P>
<P>Sometimes I lure myself step by step away from realism... it's much harder than
simply painting what I see and sometimes isn't a very comfortable way to work. By
putting concept first I can concentrate on good design. (Judith Blain) gr</P>
<P>Color does not add a pleasant quality to design it reinforces it. (Pierre
Bonnard) df</P>
<P>The motivation for design comes from an unfailing sense of wonder about light
and its effects on the form of everyday images. (Robert E. Buchanan) gr</P>
<P>The design of negative space can be just as important as the positive image.
(Joan Fedoroshyn) ab</P>
<P>As I see it our job as designers is to find as many varied routes for the eye to
follow through the composition as possible. (Peter Folkes) ka</P>
<P>After you have designed the composition, everything else you do is merely
execution - not that execution is by any means trivial, but virtuosity of execution
is for naught if the composition is wanting. (John Gargano) ab</P>
<P>An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to
free the painting hand. (Robert Genn) ab</P>
<P>If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan
lightness/darkness is natural. (Sara Genn) jb</P>
<P>Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. (Milton Glaser) df</P>
<P>Working in a studio environment with a still life, portrait or figure gives you
a great deal of control in the design. You can carefully plan the position and
movement of the subject, adding and subtracting elements as needed. (Sidney Hermel)
ba</P>
<P>There is a danger in too strong a reliance on design as an end in itself that
can lead to a kind of fatal self-indulgence. Design and composition should always
serve multiple objectives. (Michael Jorden) ba</P>
<P>Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my
drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and
naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw
continuously. (Rico Lebrun) df</P>
<P>The technique of value reduction forces you to make some difficult choices...
but helps you focus on the most significant elements of the design. (Richard
McDaniel) gr</P>
<P>The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the
source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture... Sometimes... it
seems to me that... all the works of the human brain and hand are either design
itself or a branch of that art. (Michelangelo) jb</P>
<P>A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. (Bruno Munari) jb</P>
<P>Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is
a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
(George Nelson) jb</P>
<P>Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design
must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its
construction. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Every painting must have a design structure, a foundation of line and shapes on
which to build the values, color and detail. (Carlton Plummer) df</P>
<P>Good design means as little design as possible. (Dieter Rams) jb</P>
<P>The abilities to draw and paint are slaves to good design. (David Rankin) gr</P>
<P>What seems to divide the excellent and lasting from the mundane and forgettable
works is the underlying design control... this basic abstract organization of
elements. (Ron Ranson) vw</P>
<P>Through the use of design elements and strong light patterns, I strive to
give... common objects their chance for center stage. (Susan McKinnon Rasmussen)
ab</P>
<P>Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity
of purpose with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic
insight and a deep reverence for the love of life. (Millard Sheets) df</P>
<P>Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.
(John Sloan) gr</P>
<P>Unless it gets in the way of a creative flash of inspiration, design time is
never wasted. (Tony Smibert) ab</P>
<P>Design is everything. It is the structure of the painting. Among the major
principles of design, unity is probably the most important... how the elements work
together. (Marion Starr) ba</P>
<P>The design process is basic problem-solving. (Jack Stoops) js</P>
<P>Design ideas are more apt to flow from a mind that has been imprinted with rich
and varied visual experience, rather than one that has had limited exposure. (Jack
Stoops) js</P>
<P>Design is more hands off, not as personal. Fine arts is everything about you.
(Connie Watts) ba</P>
<P>The painting begins as a feeling but ends as another body of myself. Therefore,
design knowledge not only strengthens the painting, but puts backbone into the
painter. (Frank Webb) aw</P>
<P>Design is like gravity the force that holds it all together. (Edgar Whitney)
df</P>
<P>How can I qualify my faith in the inviolability of the design principles? Their
virtue is demonstrated. They work. (Edgar Whitney) js</P>
<P>A masterly, powerful stature as a designer can be acquired only by a fairly
normal mind plus scholarship. (Edgar Whitney) js</P>
<P>If the design is sound, and the values are correct, almost any colors within
reason will work. Beautiful color harmonies, on the other hand, will not save a
painting whose design and values are poorly considered. (Eric Wiegardt) ka</P>
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<P><A name=desire>Desire</A></P>
<P>We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. (Aesop) sl</P>
<P>The desire to express myself can be triggered by any number of things a
particular experience, a childhood memory, a fleeting thought. Although these are
often blurry, the images they evoke become sharper and clearer in time... (Fernando
Allevi) ab</P>
<P>He who wants milk should not sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for
a cow to back up to him. (Anonymous) lc</P>
<P>I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies,
for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle) em</P>
<P>You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come
true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach) js</P>
<P>The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. (Richard Bach)
bcm</P>
<P>Never let go of the fiery sadness called: desire. (Matsuo Basho) rg</P>
<P>What you don't need is just as important as what you <I>do</I> need. (Romare
Bearden) df</P>
<P>The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. (John
Berry) vw</P>
<P>Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
(William Blake) jb</P>
<P>I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the
norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic. (Alfred Brendel) df</P>
<P>Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is. (Gerald
Brommer) df</P>
<P>My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my
wants. (J. Brotherton) js</P>
<P>Gie me a spark o' Nature's fire, / That's a' the learning I desire. (Robert
Burns) rg</P>
<P>I can hardly wait to get the mundane daily tasks finished so I can get into the
studio to paint, but then the desire goes right down the drain with the dishwater.
(Ardythe Campbell) ab</P>
<P>How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling...
Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was
a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that
starting point must pervade the whole. (Emily Carr) ka</P>
<P>There is one big thing desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.
(Willa Cather) rg</P>
<P>To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.
(James Dickey) la</P>
<P>Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or
desire. (Wayne Dyer) hw</P>
<P>One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of
one's own ever-shifting desires. (Albert Einstein) sl</P>
<P>Cezanne found that desire without obstacles could easily be the death of desire.
(John Elderfield on Paul Cezanne) mb</P>
<P>Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) bcm</P>
<P>Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what
you have was once among the things only hoped for. (Epicurus) js</P>
<P>Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he
wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. (Benjamin Franklin) sl</P>
<P>Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much.
(Lucian Freud) gr</P>
<P>What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for
something to occur to you. (Robert Frost) bcm</P>
<P>Never commit the Execution of a Design to him that had been unwilling to approve
of it. (Thomas Fuller) bcm</P>
<P>Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live science, everything
that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most
disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. (Remy de Gourmont) js</P>
<P>If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (James Halliwell) js</P>
<P>Someday I'll wish upon a star. [the Wizard of Oz] (E. Y. Harburg) nb</P>
<P>I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of
it is just sheer desire. (Don Henley) rg</P>
<P>Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things
they do not want to do. (Eric Hoffer) js</P>
<P>Make sure you want it enough. (Frank Kingdon) sl</P>
<P>If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously
want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. (Rudyard Kipling) js</P>
<P>Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are
destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the
pit of creation. (Paul Klee) df</P>
<P>He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. (Johann Kaspar
Lavater) sl</P>
<P>Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. (James Russell Lowell) js</P>
<P>Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they
haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and
turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions. (Eric Maisel) ab</P>
<P>If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds they
would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to
obtain. (Andre Maurois) jb</P>
<P>I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. (Bruce Nauman)
rg</P>
<P>People who want to be creative, who deeply value such a characteristic in
themselves, are more likely to make themselves creative and keep themselves that
way... (D. N. Perkins) df</P>
<P>Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the
intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one
does. That's what's important. (Pablo Picasso) js</P>
<P>I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. (Ray Prince) sl</P>
<P>There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any
resemblance to what one has in mind. (Marcel Proust) nb</P>
<P>A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care
to discover its cause. (Ayn Rand) js</P>
<P>The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. (Francois de La
Rochefoucauld) bcm</P>
<P>When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to
get it. (Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a
teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. (Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. (Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they
think. (Rumi) sl</P>
<P>When you don't feel like painting is when you must. (Monique Sakellarios) ab</P>
<P>Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must
corner the inner facts... (David Seabury) js</P>
<P>The drive to paint becomes an essential guide, directing attention to particular
subjects. Almost like love-making, there is anticipation, a build-up of excitement
and passion, a lack of control. (Randall Sexton) ka</P>
<P>Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
(George Bernard Shaw) vw</P>
<P>I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is
made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other
desire. (Isaac Bashevis Singer) ba</P>
<P>Desire is the very essence of man. (Benedict Spinoza) nb</P>
<P>You have to know what you want to get. But when you know that, let it take you.
And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back because that is
instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where
you have been before, you will go dry. (Gertrude Stein) df</P>
<P>Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food...
(Irving Stone) sr</P>
<P>Ask for what you want. Ask for help, ask for input, ask for advice and ideas
but never be afraid to ask. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing
faces. (Fred Varley) gr</P>
<P>He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. (Leonardo da Vinci)
js</P>
<P>Landscape sparks in us a desire to render on canvas the poetry that viewing it
makes us feel, and in some deeper way, connects us to it like a silent prayer.
(Janet Warrick) ka</P>
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<P><A name=desperation>Desperation</A></P>
<P>The feeling of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the
feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole
sensibility. (Francis Bacon) jb</P>
<P>...such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I
would have put an end to my life only art it was that withheld me, ah, it
seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt
called upon to produce. (Ludwig van Beethoven) sl</P>
<P>Rather than trying to kill or ignore the beast, I feed it. It remains a beast,
but changes suddenly into one of desire instead of despair. (Warren Criswell)
ab</P>
<P>Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me,
may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times...
(Max Ehrmann) js</P>
<P>Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair. (Franz Kafka)
nb</P>
<P>My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having
become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in
the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. (Willem de Kooning)
dr</P>
<P>Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
(Thomas Merton on Vincent Van Gogh) sl</P>
<P>You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the
bailiffs and the rest, since I thought you might be so good as to help me a little,
as I am in quite a desperate state, and the worst is that I can no longer even
work. [to Arsene Houssaye] (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>Most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a
performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within. (Louise
Nevelson) sl</P>
<P>Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. (Gerhard
Richter) df</P>
<P>Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o're-fraught
heart, and bids it break. (William Shakespeare) js</P>
<P>The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the
song still in them. (Henry David Thoreau) sh</P>
<P>Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy
his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
(Henry David Thoreau) js</P>
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<P><A name=destiny>Destiny</A></P>
<P>Master yourself, then you can master your world. Man is manacled only by
himself; thought and action are the jailers of Fate. (James Allen) rg</P>
<P>Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something
to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved. (William Jennings Bryan)
js</P>
<P>Choice, not chance, determines destiny. (Bill Byrne) sl</P>
<P>One fine day... as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to
her, and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, "Mama ... I want to
be a painter." (Marc Chagall) sl</P>
<P>A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by
the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. (Edwin H.
Chapin) vw</P>
<P>Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely let
the reader mark it that they are identical. (Winston Churchill) nb</P>
<P>We have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous
forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare
occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration... (Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi) jb</P>
<P>I never intended to make art. (Walt Disney at display of his work at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art) tm</P>
<P>There's a Chinese proberb that I think is true: You often find your destiny on
the path you take to avoid it. (Hector Elizondo) ba</P>
<P>I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can
cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist. (Robert Engman) ba</P>
<P>I never wanted to be a composer. I am a composer, which is a different thing.
(Vivian Fine) ba</P>
<P>We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life
that is waiting for us. (E. M. Forster) js</P>
<P>Do not try to find out we're forbidden to know what end the gods have in
store for me, or for you. (Horace) nb</P>
<P>Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. (Frank Hubbard) bcm</P>
<P>Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
(Henrik Ibsen) bcm</P>
<P>By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence,
my destiny as a painter opened out to me. (Claude Monet at 17) sj</P>
<P>Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. (Jacques Monod) ba</P>
<P>I wish I knew where I was going. Doomed to be carried of the spirit into the
wilderness, I suppose. I wish I could be more moderate in my desires, but I cannot,
and so there is no rest. (John Muir) jh</P>
<P>I am going to be an artist! I don't really know where I got my artist idea...
I only know that by that time it was definitely settled in my mind. (Georgia
O'Keeffe) ab</P>
<P>What must be, must be. (proverb) nb</P>
<P>Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap character. Sow
character and you reap destiny. (Charles Reade) js</P>
<P>My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't
each person give his life for his calling? (Clara Schumann) ba</P>
<P>I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones
among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to
serve. (Albert Schweitzer) js</P>
<P>I am passive. I just open myself up to it and take whatever happens. (Mary
Smart) rg</P>
<P>The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a
sense of destiny. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
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<P><A name=determination>Determination</A></P>
<P>My determination becomes colder to grab this twitching, living monster, and lock
it away in crystal-clear, sharp lines and planes, to quell it and strangle it. I do
not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery. (Max Beckmann) df</P>
<P>My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent
layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it! (Emily
Carr) ka</P>
<P>Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing
is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. (Calvin Coolidge)
em</P>
<P>Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
(Walt Disney) sl</P>
<P>Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. (Wayne
Dyer) hw</P>
<P>Decide what you think is right and stick to it. (George Eliot) bcm</P>
<P>If necessary, I would even paint with my bottom. (Jean-Honore Fragonard) gr</P>
<P>However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without
having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end. (Paul Gauguin)
jb</P>
<P>Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more
try. (Rosabeth Moss Kanter) sl</P>
<P>Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are
determined to achieve... (Robert H. Lauer) gr</P>
<P>There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it,
you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug. (Edouard
Manet) gr</P>
<P>Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the
determination to make the right things happen. (Peter Marshall) gr</P>
<P>It goes without saying that I will do anything at any price to pull myself out
of a situation like this [rejection] so that I can start work immediately on my
next Salon picture and ensure that such a thing should not happen again. (Claude
Monet) ba</P>
<P>Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely
in my tenacity. (Louis Pasteur) sh</P>
<P>You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet
it with courage and with the best that you have to give. (Eleanor Roosevelt) sl</P>
<P>I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to
elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau) sl</P>
<P>The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their
industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined
spirit. (Mark Twain) sl</P>
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<P><A name=difficulty>Difficulty</A></P>
<P>Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish into air. (John Quincy Adams) js</P>
<P>God doesn't believe in the easy way. (James Agee) js</P>
<P>I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles
these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
(Maya Angelou) dm</P>
<P>Do not think that what is hard for thee to master is impossible for man; but if
a thing is possible and proper to man, deem it attainable by thee. (Marcus
Aurelius) sj</P>
<P>Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee
doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Mary Kay Ash) js</P>
<P>The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at
issue... (Romare Bearden) df</P>
<P>I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody
hard to paint. (Leland Bell) df</P>
<P>Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if
you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too. (Lawrence Bixby) sl</P>
<P>If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not
sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet)
em</P>
<P>Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the
state of mind to make them. (Constantin Brancusi) df</P>
<P>When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he
spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his
sleeve. (Francois Cavanna) js</P>
<P>I have made some progress. Why so late and with such difficulty? Is art really a
priesthood that demands the pure in heart who must belong to it entirely? (Paul
Cezanne) ba</P>
<P>The contour eludes me. (Paul Cezanne) df</P>
<P>How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the
difficulties of his art does nothing that counts. (Jean-Baptist-Simeon Chardin)
jb</P>
<P>Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
(Frederic Chopin) bcm</P>
<P>on trying to paint a pale-blue sky: "My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto."
(Winston Churchill) sl</P>
<P>An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. (Confucius) ab</P>
<P>It's been a rough day. I got up this morning, put on a shirt and a button fell
off. I picked up my briefcase and the handle came off. I'm afraid to go to the
bathroom. (Rodney Dangerfield) bcm</P>
<P>Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision,
and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one
fully realizes one's own weaknesses. (Eugene Delacroix) jb</P>
<P>In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. (Albert Einstein) sj</P>
<P>There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are
right. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) em</P>
<P>The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain
their reputation from storms and tempests. (Epicurus) dr</P>
<P>Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. (Henry Ford)
gr</P>
<P>Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your
goal. (Henry Ford) sl</P>
<P>I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he
thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with
what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do. (Lucian Freud) sa</P>
<P>They called it a job that couldn't be done / With a smile we went right to it, /
We tackled that job that couldn't be done / And by gosh, we couldn't do it. (H. D.
Genn) ab</P>
<P>To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is
troublesome. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) gr</P>
<P>Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. (Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe) sh</P>
<P>In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. (Vincent Van
Gogh) tm</P>
<P>It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't;
it's a very demanding thing. (Roger de Grey) df</P>
<P>Within every setback or obstacle or disadvantage there is the seed of an equal
or opposite or greater advantage or benefit. (Napoleon Hill) sl</P>
<P>Life is short, the Art is long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous,
judgement difficult. The physician must be ready, not only to do his duty himself,
but also to secure cooperation of the patient, of the attendants, and of externals.
(Hippocrates) dr</P>
<P>I got the light and the sea that I wanted, but as it was very cold had to paint
out of my window and I was a little too far away... (Winslow Homer) jb</P>
<P>When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed. (Horace) nb</P>
<P>Man needs difficulties. They are necessary for health. (Carl Jung) js</P>
<P>The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. (Martin
Luther King-Jr.) sl</P>
<P>Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various
manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that an interpretation based on
imagination is equally erroneous, you will not find yourself facing a gaping void
as you might have feared. (Frantisek Kupka) df</P>
<P>To fly we have to have resistance. (Maya Lin) sl</P>
<P>Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is
still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what's easy. Great
undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives
for the great, And thereby the great is achieved. (Lao-Tzu) dr</P>
<P>A ballerina's life can be glorious. But it does not get any easier. I don't
think anyone must ever think about it getting easier. (Alica Markova) nb</P>
<P>Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist.
His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could
make it more so. (Henri Matisse) js</P>
<P>There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a
rose, because before he can do so, he has first to forget all the roses that were
ever painted. (Henri Matisse) sl</P>
<P>My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow
the breast of a harpy / And my brush as it drips continually / Upon my face, makes
it a gorgeous floor. (Michelangelo) ba</P>
<P>In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the
greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run,
the easiest. (Henry Miller) js</P>
<P>It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere,
the ambience. (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written
but then, try to do it! (Claude Monet) ka</P>
<P>I have once more taken up things that can't be done: water with grasses weaving
on the bottom. But I'm always tackling that sort of thing! (Claude Monet) ka</P>
<P>It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every
respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well, my
dear friend, I intend to battle on, scrape off and start again... (Claude Monet)
ba</P>
<P>It's harder than you think, and I'll bet that you would not split much wood. No,
you see, advice is very difficult to give, and I don't think it would serve any
purpose, if I may say so without offense. (Claude Monet, letter to Bazille) sj</P>
<P>Difficulties will assail you only when you lack in concentration and
persistence. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good. (Pablo Picasso) df</P>
<P>A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. (English proverb) sl</P>
<P>Only the four corners of the background remained. It was terribly difficult to
fix my eyes on all of them at the same time. My experience was that the most
difficult thing of all in art is painting in all four corners at the same time.
(Arnulf Rainer) df</P>
<P>The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's
concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the
struggle. (Adrienne Rich) sg</P>
<P>In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. (Rainer
Maria Rilke) rb</P>
<P>Those wonderful things out of doors... rain, falling snow, wind all these
things to contend with only make the open-air painter love the fight. (Elmer
Schofield) jb</P>
<P>It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do
not dare that they are difficult. (Seneca) sj</P>
<P>Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth
the effort. (George Bernard Shaw) sl</P>
<P>If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an
equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
(Socrates) em</P>
<P>Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work
to stop him. (John Steinbeck) ba</P>
<P>An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance. (Terence) lc</P>
<P>After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: "What did I do right?" and
"What would I do differently?" (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Difficulties come not to obstruct, but to instruct. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with
which to fulfill the most difficult tasks. (John Vianney) sl</P>
<P>Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward)
sl</P>
<P>Writing is so difficult that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on
earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. (Jessamyn West) sj</P>
<P>One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?"
Taiga answered: "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most
difficult." (Zen calendar) ap</P>
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<P><A name=discipline>Discipline</A></P>
<P>Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
(Romare Bearden) ba</P>
<P>What is before me and what is inside of me governs all. (Henry Casselli) df</P>
<P>It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. (Miguel de
Cervantes) bcm</P>
<P>Like bodies these canvases are subject to both discipline and incontinence, to
the utmost athletic control, and to fumbles, spurts, accidents. (Andrew Forge on
Willem de Kooning) df</P>
<P>Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas
talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. (Sidney Harris)
df</P>
<P>An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline,
carefully attending to all that concerns him. (Eric Maisel) ka</P>
<P>Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline? (Yehudi Menuhin)
ka</P>
<P>Discipline in art is a fundamental struggle to understand oneself, as much as to
understand what one is drawing. (Henry Moore) sl</P>
<P>Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day,
while failure is simply a few errors in judgement, repeated every day. (Jim Rohn)
hh</P>
<P>You don't get into the mood to create it's discipline. (Twyla Tharp) js</P>
<P>An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as
disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to
freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations... (Wayne Thiebaud)
df</P>
<P>Mental discipline of directing and choosing ones thoughts, of letting go of the
ones that do not serve the process is of utmost importance. (Helena Tiainen) ab</P>
<P>The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict
discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own
intimate sensitivity. (Anne Truitt) df</P>
<P>A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing
tender emotions (though those are its raw materials), but of intelligence, skill,
taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.
(Evelyn Waugh) gr</P>
<P>Duty is what one expects from others it is not what one does oneself. (Oscar
Wilde) ba</P>
<P>Painting is as difficult as brain surgery. It's not that relaxing. But that's
the discipline. (Jamie Wyeth) ba</P>
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<P><A name=discovery>Discovery</A></P>
<P>The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining
operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from
a single shaft. (Abe Ajay) df</P>
<P>Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. (Clive Bell)
gr</P>
<P>The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance it is the illusion of
knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin) vw</P>
<P>In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist. (Rex
Brandt) df</P>
<P>Painting is not a means of communication or even self-expression, but rather a
process of discovering, or uncovering. (Louis de Brocquy) df</P>
<P>To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover...
(Martin Buber) df</P>
<P>What I discover while I'm painting is all-important to me. (Martha Clark) ba</P>
<P>When you realize that the contours of objects are not always visible to the
human eye and therefore don't have to be recorded, you enter into a period of
visual discovery like no other. (Jack Clifton) df</P>
<P>I do my best work and have the most fun when I'm not sure exactly where I'm
heading. The process of discovery is exhilarating. (Jill Cohen) ka</P>
<P>Each painting is a kind of discovery, a discovery of new forms, color relation,
or balance in composition. With every painting completed, the artist may change his
viewpoint to suit the discoveries made, making his vision many-sided. (Robert
Colquhoun) df</P>
<P>The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and
heart finds and publishes it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js</P>
<P>Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it,
transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me...
(Alberto Giacometti) df</P>
<P>Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and
create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
(Alberto Giacometti) df</P>
<P>All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies
which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of
reality. (Ernst Gombrich) df</P>
<P>We make our discoveries while in the state [of high functioning] because then we
are clear-sighted. (Robert Henri) df</P>
<P>An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense
discipline. (John F. Kennedy) sr</P>
<P>The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. (Arthur
Koestler) js</P>
<P>We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them. (Madeleine
L'Engle) sl</P>
<P>I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the
creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something... (Brad
Leithauser) df</P>
<P>No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
(George Henry Lewes) bcm</P>
<P>It is not quite accurate to say that the objective of art is to represent what
happens to us as a consequence of encountering the world. A fuller description of
the task would be to say our aim is to discover what happens to us as we consider
things. (Peter London) df</P>
<P>As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to
discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed,
ringing laughter. (Eric Maisel) jb</P>
<P>The process of image-making is the evolution of an idea, the pursuit of which
can be like following clues in a treasure hunt. One discovery leads to another.
(Richard McDaniel) gr</P>
<P>In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner. (Henry Miller) rg</P>
<P>One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries. (A. A. Milne) js</P>
<P>In a picture, it should be possible to discover new things every time you see
it. But you can look at a picture for a week together and never think of it again.
You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life. (Joan
Miro) js</P>
<P>I didn't want them to be pictures in the 'arranged' sense. I wanted them to be
found... so that the dictionary words of describing an object disappear. (Rodrigo
Moynihan) df</P>
<P>When you begin a picture, you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on
guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each
destroying of a beautiful discovery the artist does not really suppress it, but
rather transforms it, condenses it, makes it more substantial. (Pablo Picasso)
jb</P>
<P>You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would
rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them
something new. I love discovering things. (Pablo Picasso) df</P>
<P>The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us
that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as
the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more
impermeable. (Marcel Proust) df</P>
<P>The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes. (Marcel Proust) js</P>
<P>People who thrive on their creative energy are tapping into something that is
innate in the human race the ability to discover something new. What makes them
different is the desire and motivation to create. (Faith Puleston) ka</P>
<P>Learning versatile approaches increases the artist's vocabulary and adds another
dimension of expression. And that is what painting is ultimately about: to discover
the best way in paint to most closely express what you want to say. (Stephen
Quiller) jb</P>
<P>If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and
ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his
voyage of discovery. (Herbert Read) df</P>
<P>To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice, you see.
You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you take too much of
another and you get too small. You've got to find your own doorway into things...
(Paula Rego) df</P>
<P>Only a single line is needed to discover <I>who</I> is doing what. (Paul Reps)
df</P>
<P>We must live in the joy of discovery and shout out the beauty, as well as the
pain, of this human/natural experience. (Grace Sanchez) ka</P>
<P>Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again. (Will Smith) rg</P>
<P>A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. (Albert Szent-
Gyorgyi) sj</P>
<P>Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody
has thought. (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi) ab</P>
<P>On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds. (Mark Tobey)
df</P>
<P>When you create art, you want to use yourself as an instrument to find out about
things. (Kim Tran) df</P>
<P>The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate
rigor. (Leonardo da Vinci) js</P>
<P>The artist will always discover something personal to say about any spot in the
wide world where he or she chooses to set up the easel. (Robert Wade) ab</P>
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<P><A name=doubt>Doubt</A></P>
<P>When I paint, I liberate monsters... They are the manifestations of all the
doubts, searches and groping for meaning and expression which all artists
experience... One does not choose the content, one submits to it. (Pierre
Alechinsky) df</P>
<P>If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be
content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) nb</P>
<P>It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have
one's doubts. (G. B. Burgin) ab</P>
<P>When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand. (Raymond
Chandler) bcm</P>
<P>I love to doubt as well as know. (Dante) bcm</P>
<P>I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time
it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the
world and with myself. (Edgar Degas) jb</P>
<P>If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in
your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes) em</P>
<P>What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making
progress, am I making mistakes in art? (Paul Gauguin) jb</P>
<P>Of that there is no manner of doubt / No probable, possible shadow of
doubt / No possible doubt whatever. (W. S. Gilbert) nb</P>
<P>It seems to me that if any one doubts the value or 'use' of painting they doubt
the value of being. (Francis Hoyland) sr</P>
<P>Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. (Benjamin
Jowett) sh</P>
<P>Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's
own powerful solution. (Wassily Kandinsky) ba</P>
<P>Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take
risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and
despair than those who do not court the creative muses. (Eric Maisel) sl</P>
<P>Do I doubt the painting I've just painted because it is not right or because I
can never like what I do? (Eric Maisel) jb</P>
<P>Doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizner) ba</P>
<P>Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced
beyond doubt that they are right. (Laurens van der Post) gr</P>
<P>When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. (Joseph
Roux) js</P>
<P>The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. (Bertrand Russell)
js</P>
<P>I always doubt my paintings can hold together. I'm trying to get to the point
where they carry the sense of doubt that is one of the most engaging things about
painting. (Mark Schlesinger) df</P>
<P>Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt. (William Shakespeare) pc</P>
<P>I keep going because I doubt myself. It drives me to be better. I've learned
that the mastery of self-doubt is the key to success. It's like being animated by
the love of a woman the need to be worthy of her. (Will Smith) de</P>
<P>There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
(Alfred, Lord Tennyson) mrs</P>
<P>I see something that blows my socks off and I'm left in the dust of my doubts
and I have to start building the wall of conviction/isolation all over again.
(Sandy Triolo) jb</P>
<P>Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. (Voltaire)
ab</P>
<P>The analytical left brain not only breaks the painting into its components, it
is also the doubter, the inhibitor and the one that doesn't want to ruin the
painting. (Marney Ward) ab</P>
<P>Compositional know-how gives us a weapon to fight aesthetic phantoms of doubt,
fear, discouragement and apathy. It turns all these negatives into yea-saying.
(Frank Webb) aw</P>
<P>Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell
am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting? (Neil
Welliver) df</P>
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<P><A name=drawing>Drawing</A></P>
<P>Remember that the relationship of a foot to a leg is no less critical than its
relationship to the head. When a student says, 'I know this is right,' I ask,
'Compared to what?' Nothing stands alone in a drawing. (James Adkins) df</P>
<P>Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In
small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest
weakness is easily seen. (Leon Battista Alberti) df</P>
<P>A curved line is the loveliest distance between two points. (Anonymous) df</P>
<P>The process of drawing is, before all else, the process of putting the visual
intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and
sculpture it is the process by which the artist makes clear to himself, and not to
the spectator, what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.
(Michael Ayerton) df</P>
<P>One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
(Balthus) df</P>
<P>All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their
minds, and not according to nature. (Charles Baudelaire) df</P>
<P>What do drawings mean to me? I really don't know. The activity absorbs me. I
forget everything else in a way that I don't think happens with any other
activity... (John Berger) gr</P>
<P>I love the early stages of a painting when I am drawing with the brush and
establishing the composition. (Stephen Brown) ab</P>
<P>When drawing complex subjects, don't look at the subject, but at the negative
space or background shapes the subject creates. (Lisa Buck-Goldstein) ka</P>
<P>Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little
it is, it will be well worth while, and it will do you a world of good. (Cennino
Cennini) df</P>
<P>Drawing and colour are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw.
The more the colour harmonizes, the more exact the drawing becomes. (Paul Cezanne)
gr</P>
<P>Drawing is risk. If risk is eliminated at any stage of the act it is no longer
drawing. (Lorne Coutts) df</P>
<P>Learn to draw so effectively that it becomes second nature almost another
language. Carry a sketchbook at all times. (David Curtis) ba</P>
<P>Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is
either good or bad. (Salvador Dali) sl</P>
<P>Make a drawing, begin it again, trace it; begin it again and trace it again.
(Edgar Degas) gr</P>
<P>Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of
writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. (Edgar Degas)
jb</P>
<P>Drawing is not the same as form; it is a way of seeing form. (Edgar Degas)
sj</P>
<P>Once I start making marks on the paper, it becomes more about responding to
these marks and less about copying the image... (Mark Demsteader) ba</P>
<P>Can't draw, won't draw no painting. (Chris Dennis) cd</P>
<P>My attitude towards drawing is not necessarily about drawing. It's about making
the best kind of image I can make, it's about talking as clearly as I can. (Jim
Dine) df</P>
<P>Drawing, within the visual arts, seems to hold the position of being closest to
pure thought. (John Elderfield) rg</P>
<P>A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a
tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely... but by
watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and
can then draw him at every attitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly discover the world. (Frederick
Franck) df</P>
<P>To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the
stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of
adoration is called, 'drawing from life.' (Frederick Franck) df</P>
<P>I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen...
(Frederick Franck) gr</P>
<P>A critic at my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my
drawings. My drawings! Never! They are my letters, my secrets. (Paul Gauguin)
gr</P>
<P>Drawing is still the bottom line. (Robert Genn) ab</P>
<P>We should talk less and draw more. Personally I would like to renounce speech
altogether, and like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say in
sketches. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) df</P>
<P>I sometimes think there is nothing so delightful as drawing. (Vincent Van Gogh)
jb</P>
<P>The essence of drawing is the line exploring space. (Andy Goldsworthy) rg</P>
<P>Drawing is the simplest way of establishing a picture vocabulary because it is
an instant, personal declaration of what is important and what is not. (Betty
Goodwin) zp</P>
<P>By drawing, man has extended his ability to see and comprehend what he sees.
(Frederick Gore) df</P>
<P>Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well
can always paint. (Arshile Gorky ) jb</P>
<P>For some reason, a lot of Hollywood big shots are curious to see how they'd be
drawn with bulging eyes and no chin. (Matt Groening) bcm</P>
<P>My contribution to the world is my ability to draw... Drawing is still basically
the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the
world. It lives through magic. (Keith Haring) tm</P>
<P>A sketch has charm because of its truth not because it is unfinished. (Charles
Hawthorne) gr</P>
<P>Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different
materials. A drawing is an invention. (Robert Henri) jb</P>
<P>Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the
thing. (Robert Henri) jb</P>
<P>The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the
things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand
of his sketchbook. (Robert Henri) df</P>
<P>Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad. (Robert
Henri) gr</P>
<P>A drawing should be a verdict on the model. Don't confuse a drawing with a map.
(Robert Henri) gr</P>
<P>I merely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body. (Barbara Hepworth)
sl</P>
<P>The serpentine line, or line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same
time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its
variety. (William Hogarth) gr</P>
<P>I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches
in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.
(E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
<P>Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my
pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines. (E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
<P>Of all the creative acts performed by the artist, the most directly legible is
drawing... it is the act that is most directly and spontaneously governed by his
nervous and muscular system. (Rene Huyghe) df</P>
<P>When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at
work. I told her I worked at the college that my job was to teach people how to
draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" (Howard
Ikemoto) nb</P>
<P>Every good painting must be based on a good drawing. Drawing is like the bones
to the human body. (Diana Kan) df</P>
<P>It is my firm belief that contour, gesture, and modeled drawing are absolutely
fundamental modes of working for all artists... No artist that I know ever stops
using these modes of drawing. (Robert Kaupelis) df</P>
<P>A line is a dot that went for a walk. (Paul Klee) tm</P>
<P>As in the fourteen likes of a sonnet, a few strokes of the pencil can hold
immensity. (Dame Laura Knight) gr</P>
<P>Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most
tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-
made. (Rico Lebrun) df</P>
<P>I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized
enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences.
(Rico Lebrun) df</P>
<P>Drawing is the sum of directions. (Andre L'Hote) df</P>
<P>You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a
place for color in advance. (Andre L'Hote) gr</P>
<P>A curved line for beauty, a straight line for duty. (Violet Linton) lyc</P>
<P>The least object or detail of an object that caught his attention was
immediately fixed on paper. These sketches, these brief drawings that one might
call instantaneous, show with what certainty he seized on the characteristic trait
and the decisive moment. (contemporary on Edouard Manet) sj</P>
<P>Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
(Henri Matisse) sl</P>
<P>Remember, a line cannot exist alone; it always brings a companion along. Do
remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it
creates a volume. (Henri Matisse) df</P>
<P>Drawing helps you become familiar with the subject. It releases you from working
out so many things on canvas, and thereby increases your freedom as a painter.
(Richard McDaniel) gr</P>
<P>Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know
that he holds a great treasure. (Michelangelo) ba</P>
<P>Draw, Antonio, draw draw and don't waste time! (Michelangelo) ab</P>
<P>I never draw except with brush and paint... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I find drawing a useful outlet for ideas for which there is not time enough to
realize as sculpture... And I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment. (Henry
Moore) df</P>
<P>Sketchbooks in general... seem to contain mainly studies for paintings... For
me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous <I>jeu
d'esprit</I> and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are
invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make
them, I also have no plan to make them. (Robert Motherwell) df</P>
<P>Drawing is the foundation of the painting to familiarize yourself with the
subject and to work out problems of perspective and proportion. (Michael Nevin)
ka</P>
<P>Some people hark to the past as a paradigm of how things were before they went
wrong; they talk about going back to drawing. To me, it's about going forward,
putting a new brick in the building of experience. Drawing from observation must
inevitably be of its time. (Graham Nickson) df</P>
<P>Drawing is the life and soul of painting: especially outline, is the hardest;
nay, the Art has, strictly speaking, no other difficulty. Here are needed courage
and steadfastness; here giants themselves have a lifelong struggle, in which they
can never for a moment lay aside their arms. (Francisco Pacheco) gr</P>
<P>In my work I've never done preliminary drawing, because it's sometimes difficult
to repeat something or to continue when the urgency's gone. I work on drawing as a
final product. It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write
about, and do drawing. (Deanna Petherbridge) df</P>
<P>Drawing is the representation of form the graphic expression of a visual
experience. (Walter J. Phillips) ka</P>
<P>Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he
comes and takes a seat on the paper. (Pablo Picasso) jb</P>
<P>To draw, you must close your eyes and sing. (Pablo Picasso) sl</P>
<P>It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one
fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true
character. (Camille Pissarro) gr</P>
<P>If an artist draws a subject over and over again in different ways, then he will
learn something... (Pudlo Pudlat) df</P>
<P>Contour drawing helps you see that the things you are drawing aren't things but
rather shapes that intertwine and connect. (Charles Reid) ab</P>
<P>My drawings inspire and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They
place us, as does music, in the ambiguous world of the undetermined. They are a
kind of metaphor. (Odilon Redon) df</P>
<P>Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high
value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect
unfinished; but they are truly valuable... they give the idea of a whole. (Sir
Joshua Reynolds) gr</P>
<P>What is this drawing? Not once in describing the shape of that mass did I shift
my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my
grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my
eyes see. (Auguste Rodin) df</P>
<P>My drawings are the result of my sculpture. (Auguste Rodin) gr</P>
<P>If you can't draw something, just <EM>draw</EM> it. (Dieter Rot) df</P>
<P>Lines create an experience beyond the literal. There is so much potential in
losing and finding the line again. Like letting go and being awakened. Lines, like
music, create potential for mystery. (Linda Saccoccio) ba</P>
<P>Let the object draw the picture using the ink brush as a tool. (Chinese saying)
df</P>
<P>On occasion I have drawn as a release from painting. The economy in using paper,
pencil, charcoal and crayon can help towards a greater gamble and higher rewards. I
also find that drawing can generate ideas more rapidly than painting. (William
Scott) df</P>
<P>Drawing is an idea more than fact. (Jack Shadbolt) df</P>
<P>The important thing is to keep on drawing when you start to paint. Never
graduate from drawing. (John Sloan) gr</P>
<P>Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the
coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the
artist's thought. (John Sloan) gr</P>
<P>A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing
even its faults have become virtues. (John Sloan) gr</P>
<P>Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think
of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch
masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.
(John Sloan) gr</P>
<P>Draw on both sides of the line, not just what you're enclosing. The shape you're
making on the outside is as important as the one you're making on the inside. Get
into the habit of thinking that you are drawing two forms, one on either side of
the line. (Leon Polk Smith) df</P>
<P>You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have
drawing, value and design. (Matt Smith) ab</P>
<P>Line is so versatile you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or
simply put a line around an idea like a cartoonist. (Stan Smith) ka</P>
<P>You can't see everything at the same time. Your eyes can only see one part at
any given moment. Therefore, draw by concentrating on one part at a time, but
always compare that part against other things. (Ted Smuskiewicz) jb</P>
<P>I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and
perfecting childhood drawing-without the traditional interruption of academic
training. (Saul Steinberg) sl</P>
<P>I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the
pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no
higher than that. (James Thurber) df</P>
<P>A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. (James Thurber)
dr</P>
<P>The doodle is the brooding of the hand. (Time Magazine) sl</P>
<P>You can never do too much drawing. (Tintoretto) gr</P>
<P>Beautiful colours can be bought in the shops on the Riato, but good drawing can
only be bought from the casket of the artist's talent with patient study and nights
without sleep. (Tintoretto) gr</P>
<P>It is not bright colors but good drawing that makes figures beautiful. (Titian)
gr</P>
<P>Do not mourn the loss of lead from a pencil; / Rather, rejoice in the mark it
has made. (unknown) gr</P>
<P>His sketches are so crude that his pencil strokes show more force than judgment
and seem to have been made by chance. [on Tintoretto] (Giorgio Vasari) gr</P>
<P>I have always tended to start with drawings. It's a very ancient, very normal
way of doing it... (Deon Venter) ba</P>
<P>Drawing is the probity of art. (J. Alden Weir) jb</P>
<P>Open your eyes and draw. Look, look, look. (George Weymouth) df</P>
<P>Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of
his 'Boating Party'. (Albert Wolff) gr</P>
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<P><A name=dreams>Dreams</A></P>
<P>Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that
carried them on their own bootstraps. (Peter Abrahams) ba</P>
<P>Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the
promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall
unveil. (James Allen) rg</P>
<P>The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by
the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are
nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers. (James Allen) ka</P>
<P>Dreams are the seedlings of realities. (James Allen) lc</P>
<P>If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.
(Francis Bacon) df</P>
<P>Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. (Djuna Barnes) js</P>
<P>The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-
conscious manipulation. (Sister Wendy Beckett) mb</P>
<P>I awoke and yet continued to dream... (Max Beckmann) df</P>
<P>The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
(William Blake) js</P>
<P>Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. (Erma
Bombeck) em</P>
<P>Objects seen in dreams should be manufactured and put on sale. (Andre Breton)
df</P>
<P>There is at the back of every artist's mind... the landscape of his dreams.; the
strange flora and fauna of his own secret planet; the sort of thing he likes to
think about. This general atmosphere... governs all his creations, however varied.
(G. K. Chesterton) df</P>
<P>Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's
the poet's equal there. (E. M. Cioran) js</P>
<P>In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a
caress. (Leonard Cohen) js</P>
<P>A sight to dream of, not to tell! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) nb</P>
<P>Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every
night of our lives. (Charles William Dement) bcm</P>
<P>If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. (Walt Disney) sl</P>
<P>All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. (Walt
Disney) sl</P>
<P>I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because
dreams offer too little collateral. (Walt Disney) sl</P>
<P>Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go. (Louise
Driscoll) ab</P>
<P>Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars. (Max
Ehrmann) js</P>
<P>Dreams are real while they are happening. Can we say anymore about life?
(Havelock Ellis) bcm</P>
<P>Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is
presided over by a certain reason, too. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js</P>
<P>There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face
reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. (Douglas Everett)
rg</P>
<P>You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up. (Peter Frampton) bcm</P>
<P>An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols. (Sigmund
Freud) bcm</P>
<P>We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange
goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical,
purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. (Erich Fromm) js</P>
<P>Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
We miss a great deal if we do not understand the language in which they are
written... (Erich Fromm) js</P>
<P>Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it... (Paul
Gauguin) gr</P>
<P>Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Begin it now. (Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe) dr</P>
<P>I dream my paintings, then I paint my dreams. (Vincent Van Gogh) df</P>
<P>Looking at the stars always makes me dream. (Vincent Van Gogh) ba</P>
<P>Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power,
which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a
Shakespeare. (H. F. Hedge) sl</P>
<P>You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women,
bread, smokes and trees. (Jean Helion) df</P>
<P>When your dreams tire, they go underground out of kindness and that's where they
stay. (Libby Houston) js</P>
<P>Hold fast to your dreams, for if dreams die, then life is like a broken winged
bird that cannot fly. (Langston Hughes) lc</P>
<P>There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood
tomorrow. (Victor Hugo) bcm</P>
<P>It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early. (Tove
Jansson) rg</P>
<P>But these were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer.
(Samuel Johnson) jb</P>
<P>In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in
concert. (Samuel Johnson) bcm</P>
<P>Sometimes I dream of a work of really great breadth, ranging through the whole
region of object, meaning, and style. This, I fear, will remain a dream, but it is
a good thing to bear the possibility occasionally in mind. (Paul Klee) ba</P>
<P>There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are
dreams and dreams allow us possibility. (Jeffrey David Lang) sl</P>
<P>It may be that those who do most, dream most. (Stephen Leacock) ba</P>
<P>You may say I'm a dreamer, / But I'm not the only one. (John Lennon) rg</P>
<P>I work to create worlds where my dreams and whimsy may be played out. (Janet
Leszczynski) df</P>
<P>What I dream of is an art of balance. (Henri Matisse) js</P>
<P>It is not a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to
dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a
disaster to have no ideal to capture. (Dr. Benjamin Mays) js</P>
<P>While dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is
in a broader sense the play with dreams. (Friedrich Nietzsche) js</P>
<P>Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring
back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. (Anais Nin) js</P>
<P>Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you. (Marsha
Norman) sl</P>
<P>All that we see or seem / Is but a dream / within a dream. (Edgar Allan Poe)
gr</P>
<P>They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream
only by night. (Edgar Allan Poe) vw</P>
<P>I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland. (Howard Pyle) sl</P>
<P>A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. (Zadok Rabinwitz) js</P>
<P>Dream big for you can't stuff a great life into a small dream. (Barb Rees)
rg</P>
<P>We must build our dreams and live our dreams. (Alice Rich) ba</P>
<P>What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? (Jill Robinson) rg</P>
<P>Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. (Theodore Roosevelt)
sl</P>
<P>Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. (Johann Friedrich von Schiller) sl</P>
<P>The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream. (William
Shakespeare) sl</P>
<P>Dreams are toys. Yet for this once, yea, superstitiously, I will be squared by
this. (William Shakespeare) js</P>
<P>You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say
Why not? (George Bernard Shaw) sl</P>
<P>Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream
precedes the goal. (Ralph Vaull Starr) js</P>
<P>Reality is the best possible cure for dreams. (Roger Starr) js</P>
<P>Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? (Alfred, Lord
Tennyson) nb</P>
<P>Dreams are the touchstones of our character. (Henry David Thoreau) js</P>
<P>Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
(Henry David Thoreau) js</P>
<P>Dream big dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.
(Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still
untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. (Dr. Dale E.
Turner) js</P>
<P>If it can be well enough dreamed; it can be easily enough done. (unknown) rg</P>
<P>You got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream
come true? (unknown) js</P>
<P>Old dreams chase away new ones. (unknown) js</P>
<P>Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have
them. (John Updike) sl</P>
<P>Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em. (Mary Webb) js</P>
<P>Dreams can often become challenging, but challenges are what we live for.
(Travis White) js</P>
<P>A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is
that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. (Oscar Wilde) sl</P>
<P>We are the music makers, and we are the dreamer of dreams. (Willy Wonka) ph</P>
<P>A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly
surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his
dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician... because it offers no security,
it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future." (Henry M.
Wriston) js</P>
<P>In dreams begins responsibility. (William Butler Yeats) js</P>
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<P><A name=drunkenness>Drunkenness</A></P>
<P>Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may whet my mind and say something
clever. (Aristophanes) gr</P>
<P>One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
(Nancy Astor) nb</P>
<P>The greater the fool in the pencil more blest, And when they are drunk they
always paint best. (William Blake) dd</P>
<P>When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play
them when I was drunk. (Richard Burton) bcm</P>
<P>When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life;
you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole
barrel. (Anton Chekhov) bcm</P>
<P>Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English
drunkard made the rolling English road. (G. K. Chesterton) nb</P>
<P>No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness or so good as drink.
(G. K. Chesterton) gr</P>
<P>To Ibn Saud when he heard that the king's religion forbade smoking and alcohol:
"I must point out that my rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite
smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after, and if need be
during all meals and in the intervals between them." (Winston Churchill) jb</P>
<P>While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span
or the will. (David Crosby) ba</P>
<P>An American Monkey after getting drunk on brandy would never touch it again, and
thus is much wiser than most men. (Charles Darwin) bcm</P>
<P>Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why: / Drink! for you know not why
you go, nor where. (Edward Fitzgerald) nb</P>
<P>Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. (Andre Gide)
nb</P>
<P>The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
(Robert Henri) am</P>
<P>Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could
derange its functions? (Hippocrates) jb</P>
<P>I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake,
and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach
suffered. (Winslow Homer) jb</P>
<P>The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate
the mystical faculties of human nature. (William James) jb</P>
<P>If 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human
experience. (William James) nb</P>
<P>A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. (Samuel Johnson) jb</P>
<P>Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink
for a living. (Jean Kerr) jb</P>
<P>A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
(Sinclair Lewis) js</P>
<P>Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer and denies you the beer to cry
into. (Don Marquis) gr</P>
<P>You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on. (Dean Martin)
gr</P>
<P>Write first, drink later. (Patrick McGrath) sl</P>
<P>Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water,
you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you. (Michael Moriarty) ab</P>
<P>For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a
certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. (Friedrich
Nietzsche) df</P>
<P>Drunkenness... spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. (William
Penn) nb</P>
<P>First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes
the man. (proverb) jb</P>
<P>The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no
great interest. (Wilhelm Reich) jb</P>
<P>No, thank you, I was born intoxicated. (George William Russell) nb</P>
<P>Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity. (Seneca) nb</P>
<P>Let's go and get drunk on light again it has the power to console. (Georges
Seurat) df</P>
<P>It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery. (William Shakespeare) jb</P>
<P>I am only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. (George Bernard Shaw)
jb</P>
<P>Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding
bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many
alibis. (James Taylor) ba</P>
<P>An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. (Dylan
Thomas) jb</P>
<P>Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
(Henry David Thoreau) js</P>
<P>Of course one should not drink much, but often. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)
sl</P>
<P>Imaginary good is boring. Real good is always new, marvelous, and intoxicating.
(Simone Weil) ka</P>
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<P><A name=earth>Earth</A></P>
<P>Earth, receive an honoured guest: / William Yeats is laid to rest. / Let the
Irish vessel lie / Emptied of its poetry. (W. H. Auden) rg</P>
<P>I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the
planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up,
to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it
together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my
work. (Robert Bateman) sl</P>
<P>To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only
legitimate hope of survival. (Wendell Berry) js</P>
<P>The earth's distances invite the eye. And as the eye reaches, so must the mind
stretch to meet these new horizons. I challenge anyone to stand with autumn on a
hilltop and fail to see a new expanse not only around him, but in him, too. (Hal
Borland) tm</P>
<P>Earth's crammed into heaven. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) js</P>
<P>Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that
will endure as long as life lasts. (Rachel Carson) sl</P>
<P>For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers. (Titus Lucretius
Carus) bcm</P>
<P>This planet below you is our campsite, and you know of no other campground.
(Kalpana Chawla) ka</P>
<P>I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of
the world. (Eugene V. Debs) js</P>
<P>Earth cannot escape heaven, flee it by going up, or flee it by going down;
heaven still invades the earth, energizes it, makes it sacred. (Meister Johann
Eckhart) sl</P>
<P>A few moments before the sun sets, the dark <I>Earth shadow</I> begins to rise
in the east... It is nothing less than the shadow of the entire Earth, cast upward
onto the atmosphere itself... I saw it over the great plains, and I felt as if I
could sense the Earth pivoting silently under my feet... (James Elkins) gr</P>
<P>Earth laughs in flowers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>Asking and wondering, from where did this planet that we inhabit come? (Eduardo
Galeano) lp</P>
<P>Despite the folly of all our mistakes and all of our utopian conceits, and the
lateness of the hour... The tide goes out. The tide comes in again. The world is
not coming to an end. (Terry Glavin) ab</P>
<P>The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to
know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is
close to us in spirit this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe) js</P>
<P>To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human
spirit. (Stephen Hawking) js</P>
<P>But did thee feel the earth move? (Ernest Hemingway) nb</P>
<P>Go out, go out I beg of you. And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the
miracle of the earth. With all the wonder of a child. (Enda Jaques) tm</P>
<P>It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is. (Robinson Jeffers) tm</P>
<P>The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television,
or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. (Aldo Leopold) alb</P>
<P>The world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty, the beauty of speed.
(Filippo Marinetti) ba</P>
<P>There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. (Marshall McLuhan)
js</P>
<P>My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth's loveliness.
(Michelangelo) js</P>
<P>What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein each other like,
more than on Earth is thought? (John Milton) ba</P>
<P>My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity. (astronaut Edgar Mitchell)
js</P>
<P>When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted
with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and
shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
(John Muir) jh</P>
<P>Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and
continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls. (John Muir)
jh</P>
<P>There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting. (Robert
Rauschenberg) df</P>
<P>You are lost if you forget the fruits of the earth belong to all and that the
earth belongs to no one. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) js</P>
<P>Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
(Henry David Thoreau) ae</P>
<P>I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E.
B. White) sh</P>
<P>Sometimes a painting is plea to the viewer to care to care as deeply as the
artist about the earth and its inhabitants. (Rachel Rubin Wolf) gr</P>
<P>The majesty of the earth gets my blood circulating that's good stuff. (William
Woodward) ba</P>
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<P><A name=eccentricity>Eccentricity</A></P>
<P>To be really great and interesting, you have to be a little crazy. I just don't
think one comes without the other. (Drew Barrymore) de</P>
<P>Be daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrity
of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the
commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. (Cecil Beaton) de</P>
<P>I have a lot of tics and phobias. I hate to travel. I hate to go to festivals. I
hate it when somebody gets close behind me. I'm scared of the darkness. I hate open
doors. (Ingmar Bergman) ka</P>
<P>It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the
work will go. (Nicolas Cage) de</P>
<P>Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses,
forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-
legged in the lotus position in front of them. (Prince Charles) js</P>
<P>What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable
man... I should want my work to show what is in the heart of such an eccentric, of
such a nobody. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb</P>
<P>A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be
free. (Nikos Kazantzakis) bcm</P>
<P>I always was a rebel... but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and
accepted... and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be
what I am not. (John Lennon) vw</P>
<P>The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck
able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society. (Eric Maisel)
jb</P>
<P>I dare affirm that any artist... who has nothing singular, eccentric, or at
least reputed to be so, in his person, will never become a superior talent.
(Michelangelo) jb</P>
<P>Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has
abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been
proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it
contained. (John Stuart Mill) sl</P>
<P>I was so upset yesterday that I made the blunder of throwing myself in the
water. Fortunately, there were no bad results. (Claude Monet) rg</P>
<P>Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. (Malcolm Muggeridge)
de</P>
<P>Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like
people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the
irrational. (John Muir) ba</P>
<P>People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a
'mad clown'. (Vaslav Nijinsky) ba</P>
<P>Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world. (Kathleen Norris)
de</P>
<P>Men have called me mad, but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is
or is not the loftiest intelligence whether much that is glorious whether all
that is profound does not spring from disease of thought from moods of mind
exalted at the expense of the general intellect. (Edgar Allan Poe) de</P>
<P>We saw Tom come almost at a run over the Joe Lake Portage. Canoe over his head.
Throwing his canoe into the water he seized his paddle like a mad man to our wharf
here he pulled up his canoe in haste and up into our cabin. [on Tom Thomson] (Mark
Robinson) js
<P>Let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a
good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to
take it on. I love them all. (Charles Saatchi) js</P>
<P>The man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics
because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the
opinions and vagaries of the crowd. (Dame Edith Sitwell) js</P>
<P>I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day
reality of things was unbearably flat. (Sharon Stone) de</P>
<P>Say Mark... you know just what I want, three trees... Black spruce rough cold
looking trees you know what I mean. Trees against a cold green grey northern sky
where can I get them at once? [to Mark Robinson] (Tom Thomson) js</P>
<P>Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. (Mark Twain) ka</P>
<P>Excellent day for putting Slinkies on an escalator. (unknown) bcm</P>
<P>I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain. (Tom Waits) de</P>
<P>Creativity is at the heart of eccentricity. (David Weeks) de</P>
<P>Eccentric people have these happy obsessive preoccupations, and a wonderful,
unusual sense of humor, and this gives them a significant meaning in life. And they
are far healthier than most people because of that. (David Weeks) de</P>
<P>You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. (Robin
Williams) jb</P>
<P>Being different, being against the grain of society, is the greatest thing in
the world. (Elijah Wood) de</P>
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<P><A name=editing>Editing</A></P>
<P>Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be
economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh
is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak. (Henry
Brooks Adams) bcm</P>
<P>Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? (Fred Allen) nb</P>
<P>I dare not alter these things; they come to me from above. (Alfred Austin)
nb</P>
<P>You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to
write. (Saul Bellow) bcm</P>
<P>Of every four words I write, I strike out three. (Nicolas Boileau) bcm</P>
<P>There is no great writing, only great rewriting. (Louis D. Brandeis) ab</P>
<P>In the editing process, I delete what I do not want to use, move what remains
around if necessary and add elements that I feel will make my visual statement as
clear and understandable as possible. (Gerald Brommer) ba</P>
<P>This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of ever being
read. (Winston Churchill) sj</P>
<P>An erasure is a creative mark. (Melanie Circle) df</P>
<P>Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (T. S. Eliot) ap</P>
<P>An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot
better, a little better. (T. S. Eliot) bcm</P>
<P>Most editors are failed writers but so are most writers. (T. S. Eliot) bcm</P>
<P>Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing
because you have omitted every word that he can spare. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
bcm</P>
<P>My paintings are made up of what remains after eliminating everything unwanted.
(Alan Feltus) df</P>
<P>I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the
end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition
the faults of the first. (Benjamin Franklin) bcm</P>
<P>If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it
would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. (Benjamin Franklin)
bcm</P>
<P>Cute little babies that fall out of swings These are a few of my favourite
things. (Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music")
sl</P>
<P>The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human
bladder. (Alfred Hitchcock) ab</P>
<P>Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a
second reading. (Horace) em</P>
<P>Every good artist has a good eraser. (Skip Van Lenten) svl</P>
<P>No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. (J.
Russel Lynes) bcm</P>
<P>The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and
lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned proofreader, blue-pencilling the bad
spelling of God. (H. L. Mencken) sl</P>
<P>I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it
shorter. (Blaise Pascal) sh</P>
<P>I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. (Auguste Rodin)
ab</P>
<P>An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.
(Adlai Stevenson) nb</P>
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<P><A name=education>Education</A></P>
<P>What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Joseph
Addison) bcm</P>
<P>A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated
or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will
bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed-
seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind. (James Allen)
ka</P>
<P>The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle) js</P>
<P>For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
(Aristotle) bcm</P>
<P>It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it. (Aristotle) em</P>
<P>A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. (W. H. Auden) jb</P>
<P>Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put
blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-
disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself. (Romare Bearden) df</P>
<P>In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is
necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear. (Joseph Beuys) df</P>
<P>Education is the movement from darkness to light. (Allan Bloom) js</P>
<P>If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) ap</P>
<P>The sole fact of having a school to train creative people is absolute lunacy...
The idea of 'pedagogical vision' is ignoble, it has nothing to do with art, it's
contrary to art. I really believe in teaching, despite what I say. (Christian
Boltanski) df</P>
<P>When elementary schools include art programs in the curriculum, children do
better with math. (Kelly Borsheim) ba</P>
<P>Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart
whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there,
firm as weeds among rocks. (Charlotte Bronte) js</P>
<P>Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but
impossible to enslave. (Henry Peter Brougham) em</P>
<P>For education does not give only knowledge, but taste: it qualifies the feelings
as well as the judgment. (Joyce Carey) jb</P>
<P>There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people
take less trouble about learning. (G. K. Chesterton) gr</P>
<P>Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to
another. (G. K. Chesterton) bcm</P>
<P>I began my education at a very early age in fact, right after I left college.
(Winston Churchill) bcm</P>
<P>A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in
students. (John Ciardi) ap</P>
<P>Educated minds seem to be boggled by the need to be original. If they want to be
painters most of them have to buckle down and learn to paint after graduation.
(Margot Clayton) ba</P>
<P>People come with preconceived notions about looking at art, and unless they
decide to investigate further and learn something, they'll go away with the same
notions they came with. (Patricia Cole-Ferullo) sl</P>
<P>An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed. (John
Constable) df</P>
<P>I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is
completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his
own inspiration and his own study of past tradition. (Gustave Courbet) jb</P>
<P>I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known at all. (Noel
Coward) nb</P>
<P>The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually
asking questions. (Bishop Creighton) ka</P>
<P>"Learning to paint" is probably the worst thing that can happen to an artist.
(Warren Criswell) ab</P>
<P>There is no education like adversity. (Benjamin Disraeli) sl</P>
<P>Teach me to hear the mermaids singing. (John Donne) js</P>
<P>You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory,
preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. (Fyodor
Dostoevski) sg</P>
<P>The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind, to
train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations
of others. (Tryon Edwards) bcm</P>
<P>It is nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not
yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry... It is a very grave mistake
to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of
coercion and a sense of duty. (Albert Einstein) lp</P>
<P>All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for
development accorded the individual. (Albert Einstein) bcm</P>
<P>The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many
facts, but the training of the mind to think of something that cannot be learned
from textbooks. (Albert Einstein) bcm</P>
<P>Years of educational treatment have convinced us that learning is, and can only
be, the result of teaching. We grow up into adults who insist that our children
"receive" an education. We trust neither ourselves nor our children. (Aaron Falbel)
lp</P>
<P>Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment
because it was generally believed to be irrelevant. (Eric Fischl) jb</P>
<P>An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you
know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
(Anatole France) em</P>
<P>Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
(Benjamin Franklin) em</P>
<P>Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not
for the education of all adults of every age? (Erich Fromm) bcm</P>
<P>Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper
or your self-confidence. (Robert Frost) gr</P>
<P>I was a terrible history student. They taught me history as if it were a visit
to a wax museum or to the land of the dead. I was over twenty before I discovered
that the past was neither quiet nor mute. (Eduardo Galeano) lp</P>
<P>I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
(Galileo) em</P>
<P>A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and
dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for
four years. (Robert Genn) sg</P>
<P>The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts:
grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy,
theory of design, arithmetic. (Lorenzo Ghiberti) tm</P>
<P>I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and
kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. (Kahlil
Gibran) em</P>
<P>It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find
it teaches me things. (Vincent Van Gogh) df</P>
<P>In a certain way I am glad I have not <I>learned</I> painting. (Vincent Van
Gogh) jb</P>
<P>I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. (Vincent
Van Gogh) df</P>
<P>Something I tell my students is to read (a text) once; then if you still have
problems with it, read it a second time. If you still have problems, get drunk and
read it a third time... and you might get something out of it. (Felix Gonzalez-
Torres) df</P>
<P>The making of an artist is more than the training of hands; it's the training of
the eye, the ear, and the listening heart. (William Gough) sl</P>
<P>A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know <I>why
</I>they draw. (Robert Henri) df</P>
<P>Students work in schools making life studies for years, win prizes for life
studies and find in the end that they know practically nothing of the human figure.
They have acquired the ability to copy. (Robert Henri) df</P>
<P>All education must be self-education. (Robert Henri) rg</P>
<P>Self-education only produces expressions of self. (Robert Henri) gr</P>
<P>Watching other people work, each following their own muse, is a great way to
learn. (Steve Hovland) ba</P>
<P>School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of
teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite
overwhelming evidence to the contrary. (Ivan Illich) bcm</P>
<P>The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things the power to
tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the
good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. (Samuel Johnson) bcm</P>
<P>Tact is the art of building a fire under people without making their blood boil.
(Franklin P. Jones) js</P>
<P>Art hath an enemy called ignorance. (Ben Jonson) df</P>
<P>Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. (S ren Kierkegaard)
js</P>
<P>Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and the pupil are
located in the same individual. (Arthur Koestler) df</P>
<P>Education is... doing anything that changes you. (George B. Leonard) js</P>
<P>An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.
(William Lethaby) df</P>
<P>The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not
be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be
'undemocratic.' (C. S. Lewis) js</P>
<P>If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to
follow. (John Lubbock) bcm</P>
<P>A formal education in the arts can be like a physical injury sustained early in
life it keeps flaring up the rest of your days and you sometimes find yourself
limping where once your gait was steady. (Mary Madsen) ba</P>
<P>Children of any age flourish with options. Art should be mandatory at all ages.
(Donna Jo Massie) ka</P>
<P>A college degree has become one more thing for us to acquire, rather than a
passion for us to pursue. (Leon McGinnis) lp</P>
<P>Much of education now seems to be founded on expediency rather than excellence.
(Pete McMartin) ba</P>
<P>I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. (Wilson Mizner) js</P>
<P>When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do,
and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to
work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what
art was going to be. (Bruce Nauman) gr
<P>A white lace curtain on the window was for me as important as a great work of
art. This gossamer quality, the reflection, the form, the movement. I learned more
about art from that than I did in school. (Louise Nevelson) df</P>
<P>I learned the tricks... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It
is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty the mistakes and dead ends
that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you
learn and apply. (Isamu Noguchi) df</P>
<P>Schools and things that painters have taught me even keep me from painting as I
want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to
and say what I want to when I painted... (Georgia O'Keeffe) jb</P>
<P>Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
(Perelman) ap</P>
<P>Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
(Laurence J. Peter) vw</P>
<P>But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned? / I sat in their chairs and
my synapses burned. (Phish) tc</P>
<P>The trouble is, we've been taught what to see and how to render what we see. If
only we could be in the position of those men who did those wonderful drawings in
Lascaux and Altimira! (Pablo Picasso) df</P>
<P>Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. (Chinese proverb) sh</P>
<P>I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New
York. [1905] (Howard Pyle) rg</P>
<P>I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for
a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the
foundation of education. (Ronald Reagan) sl</P>
<P>It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature,
and above all, going to the Louvre. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) jb</P>
<P>The only way to understand painting is to go and look at it. And if out of a
million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to
justify museums. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir) jb</P>
<P>Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit
of insubordination on the part of the taught. (Agnes Repplier) lp</P>
<P>Lessons in anything can be dangerous to us, for the weekly guilt can become
addictive. We can come to believe that we deserve scorn, and that we really can
profit from being told repeatedly how to do it... Gradually we lose our child-like
enthusiasm... and substitute instead an intense yearning to do it "right" for the
teacher. (Eloise Ristad) lp</P>
<P>What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a
liberal arts education provides. (Felix G. Rohatyn) js</P>
<P>Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health.
Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the
miracle process all begins. (Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.
(Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right
things, but enjoy them; not merely be industrious, but love industry; not merely
learn, but love knowledge; not merely be pure, but love purity; not merely be just,
but hunger and thirst after justice. (John Ruskin) js</P>
<P>Education can train, but not create, intelligence. (Edward McChesney Sait)
js</P>
<P>Not all is taught in one school. (Hawaiian saying) df</P>
<P>All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own
education. (Sir Walter Scott) js</P>
<P>A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art
into pedantry. Hence University education. (George Bernard Shaw) js</P>
<P>My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose
my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly
selective. (Burton Silverman) rg</P>
<P>Art for kids offers exercise for the right brain, and it shows there are
different ways to arrive at a solution to a problem... (Helen Ormiston Simpson)
df</P>
<P>I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me. (Slogan of the Free
Speech Movement, 1964) js</P>
<P>Learning is never aversive usually we are not aware of it at all. It is
failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to
nonsensical activities. (Frank Smith) lp</P>
<P>I've always loved graffiti, the straightforwardness of it, even if its subject
matter is narrow and gross. Its directness has always thrilled me impulse to
image with no barriers in between, especially those imposed by an 'education.'
(Richard Stine) df</P>
<P>As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which
things relate to one another. (Wayne Thiebaud) df</P>
<P>My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time,
with my eyes hanging out. (Dylan Thomas) ka</P>
<P>What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free,
meandering brook. (Henry David Thoreau) js</P>
<P>Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-
confidence you will have. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain) ab</P>
<P>Some people get an education without going to college; the rest get it after
they get out. (Mark Twain) js</P>
<P>If people care as much about education as they say they do, why aren't they
willing to pay teachers as much as garbage collectors? (Author unknown) sl</P>
<P>Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master. (Leonardo da Vinci) tm</P>
<P>Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time
that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde) sh</P>
<P>Education is the mother of leadership. (Wendell L. Willkie) js</P>
<P>One must always be prepared to learn something totally new. (Ludwig
Wittgenstein) gr</P>
<P>If the learning process destroys the excitement, the involvement, the ability to
respond, then we lose by that learning. (Gordon J. Wootton) vm</P>
<P>Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William
Butler Yeats) js</P>
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<P><A name=efficiency>Efficiency</A></P>
<P>There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done
at all. (Peter Drucker) sg</P>
<P>Do not believe that it is very much of an advance to do the unnecessary three
times as fast. (Peter Drucker) em</P>
<P>Efficiency is intelligent laziness. (David Dunham) js</P>
<P>Disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. (Dwight D.
Eisenhower) vw</P>
<P>What you're doing is okay just do it more efficiently. (Jack Hambleton) rg</P>
<P>You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is to eliminate obstacles
and smooth the way for it. (Kimon Nicolaides) js</P>
<P>If you want to develop your creativity, establish regular work habits. Allow
time for the incubation of ideas, and adhere to your individual rhythm. Violations
of this rhythm can retard your creative efficiency. (Eugene Raudsepp) js</P>
<P>You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance
except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time
effectively. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving
things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
(Lin Yutang) js</P>
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<P><A name=effort>Effort</A></P>
<P>Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort, the diadem of thought. (James
Allen) ka</P>
<P>There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring
something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to
be able to take something out. (Mikhail Baryshnikov) sl</P>
<P>It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away
all obstacles. (Claude M. Bristol) js</P>
<P>You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.
(William F. Buckley-Jr.) vw</P>
<P>For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work,
patience, love, and self-sacrifice. (John Burroughs) ka</P>
<P>We need to put in effort because we want to do it; because it is our privilege
and joy to learn, to test ourselves, experiment and experience. (Leanne Cadden)
ba</P>
<P>An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. (Lydia M.
Child) vw</P>
<P>A world where nothing is had for nothing. (Arthur Hugh Clough) nb</P>
<P>The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.
(Doug Dawson) ba</P>
<P>It's never crowded along the extra mile. (Wayne Dyer) hw</P>
<P>A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends
on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order
to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. (Albert Einstein)
bcm</P>
<P>For us it is just the trying: all the rest is not our business. (T. S. Eliot)
df</P>
<P>We aim above the mark to hit the mark. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js</P>
<P>Ultimately, you want a painting to look effortless, not overworked. (Gay
Faulkenberry) ka</P>
<P>One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller) js</P>
<P>To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one. (Robert
Genn) to</P>
<P>If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because
then I wouldn't have to paint at all. (Alberto Giacometti) df</P>
<P>Do whatever you do intensely. (Robert Henri) am</P>
<P>It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to
take an interest in my efforts. (Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel) ka</P>
<P>Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. (Napoleon
Hill) js</P>
<P>The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. (Oliver
Wendell Holmes) js</P>
<P>A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely
from the author's soul. (Aldous Huxley) pd</P>
<P>What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. (Samuel
Johnson) js</P>
<P>When you start coasting, there is only one way to go, and that is downhill. (Dr.
Randy Kerry) sl</P>
<P>Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when
you are the least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something
sitting down. (Charles F. Kettering) js</P>
<P>Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular
success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That
little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference. (Ralph Marston) js</P>
<P>The artist begins with a vision a creative operation requiring an effort.
(Henri Matisse) sr</P>
<P>If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so
wonderful after all. (Michelangelo) js</P>
<P>I hope that something will come out of so much effort... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>As is the case in all branches of art, success depends in a very large measure
upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by dint of
hard work. (Anna Pavlova) nb</P>
<P>People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture
is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it. (Pablo Picasso) sr</P>
<P>Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more. (Carter Ratcliff) rg</P>
<P>Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt) js</P>
<P>Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
(George Santayana) em</P>
<P>Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount
Olympus. (Wayne Thiebaud) gr</P>
<P>Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no
one sees or appreciates. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen. (Ken
Venturi) df</P>
<P>Some people approach artmaking like the San Diego Chargers approach Football,
once they know they are going to get paid, effort goes out the window. (Kim Wyatt)
rg</P>
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<P><A name=ego>Ego</A></P>
<P>A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or
truth but on his own side. (Joseph Addison) lp</P>
<P>Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-
transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the
acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic. (Hannah Arendt)
df</P>
<P>One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big
egos. In some cases, it's the only difference. (Charles Atlas) tm</P>
<P>All that we are not stares back at what we are. (W. H. Auden) bcm</P>
<P>I've often felt my ego was like a layer cake layers of high ego and low ego
alternating endlessly... I need approbation for both layers of the cake. (Janet
Badger) ab</P>
<P>When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be
disappointed to discover they are not it. (Bernard Bailey) js</P>
<P>Generally, the participants with the largest egos get the least out of a
workshop. (Jacqueline Baldini) ba</P>
<P>Nothing we do is separate from the functioning entity we call our selves.
(Nicoletta Baumeister) ab</P>
<P>The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, "I've
gotta be Me,"] and transcend himself as he makes judgements. (Romare Bearden)
df</P>
<P>At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry. [sign at House of Coffee and Tea,
Tucson, Arizona] (Bentley's) sh</P>
<P>Ego, just a three-letter word and yet so interesting. If we did not have an ego,
we would be lost. Feeding it too much we would also be lost. (Lida van Bers) ab</P>
<P>An egotist is a person of low taste more interested in himself than in me.
(Ambrose Bierce) sl</P>
<P>I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands. (Louise Bourgeois) df</P>
<P>All my compatriots are asses compared to me. (Paul Cezanne) bb</P>
<P>I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you
know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature
consideration. (Cezanne to his mother) ba</P>
<P>Creativity in general may require a certain disarmament of the ego. (Warren
Criswell) ka</P>
<P>When I paint, the ocean roars. Others merely paddle in their bath. (Salvador
Dali) mb</P>
<P>Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player. (Miles Davis) bcm</P>
<P>I gotta be me. (Sammy Davis-Jr.) gr</P>
<P>Ego is responsible for clouding the mind on the conscious level. It is far more
difficult to access that part of oneself where the creative thought begins when one
is attached to a certain outcome, a certain standard. (Carolynn Doan) ka</P>
<P>To see, one must deny the ego and humble himself in front of mother nature.
(Charles Duback) df</P>
<P>Self-worth comes from one thing thinking that you are worthy. (Wayne Dyer)
hw</P>
<P>I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not
preserve myself. (Jose Ortega Y Gasset) em</P>
<P>The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to
accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. [to high school grads]
(Bill Gates) ll</P>
<P>I am a man for whom the outside world exists. (Theophile Gautier) nb</P>
<P>For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as
greater than he is. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) em</P>
<P>I am willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
(Samuel Goldwyn) nb</P>
<P>Our real nature is not our imaginary, limited ego. Our true nature is vast, all-
comprehensive, and intangible as empty space. (Lama Govinda) jm</P>
<P>If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am
I? And if not now when? (Hillel) js</P>
<P>I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of
model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through
fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.
(Damien Hirst) mb</P>
<P>The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the
nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that
history has yet seen. (Ellen Key) js</P>
<P>Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. (Rudyard Kipling) bcm</P>
<P>Nothing can touch me now I'm Jeff Koons and my art can defend me! (Jeff Koons)
mb</P>
<P>If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then
in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
(John Lennon) js</P>
<P>I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. (Roy Lichtenstein)
sl</P>
<P>The average person thinks he isn't. (Father Larry Lorenzoni) ap</P>
<P>An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed. (David
Louis) ab</P>
<P>I left my ego at the door of his classroom when I entered, and left with a
portfolio of drawings I still can't believe I produced. [on her Drawing 101
teacher] (Mary Madsen) ba</P>
<P>I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am. (Eric Maisel)
ka</P>
<P>An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors:
carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. (Eric Maisel) jb</P>
<P>I wanted to see what other people see when they see me. People seem to like me,
so I wanted to see if I could like me. (Rocco Mirro) df</P>
<P>Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of
agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my
plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or
myself. (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu) jb</P>
<P>For those who demonstrate, a very big price is paid in educational benefits if
personal style, running commentary and facile brushwork feeds an ego while closing
doors to unique discoveries. (Dick Nelson) ba</P>
<P>Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
gr</P>
<P>The simple fact of yourself... there it is... just you... no excitement about
it... a very simple fact... the only thing you have... keep it as clear as you can.
(Georgia O'Keeffe) df</P>
<P>I can beat myself on the chest, rise up proudly; this is me, me, me. [on
exhibiting] (Egbert Oudendag) rg</P>
<P>Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. (J. Petit-Senn) js</P>
<P>Art is coming face to face with yourself. (Jackson Pollock) gr</P>
<P>Self-love seems so often unrequited. (Anthony Powell) nb</P>
<P>Artists have complicated egos. They have to be a fair size to even do what they
do, yet they are often as fragile as they are large. (Andrea Pratt) ba</P>
<P>I'm angry at how school produces submissive students with battered egos. Most
students have no idea of the true joys of learning, and of how much they can
actually achieve on their own. (Adam Robinson) lp</P>
<P>The man who thinks he can do without the world is indeed mistaken; but the man
who thinks the world cannot do without him is mistaken even worse. (Francois de La
Rochefoucauld) em</P>
<P>When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package. (John
Ruskin) ap</P>
<P>My work is a 'concrete' of that which preceded language and which language is
all about... to make a 'talisman,' to render myself proof from whatever I feel
could interfere with the continuation of my personality and volition. (Michael
Sandle) df</P>
<P>I am wedded to who I am. (Burton Silverman) rg</P>
<P>You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. (Spock) ap</P>
<P>Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale. (Adlai Stevenson) gr</P>
<P>Ego is the memory and the use of information and the cultivating of will no
real creativity is possible within its boundaries. The passion and the compassion
is unbelievably deeper than what our subconscious id could ever hold. (Joseph Tany)
ab</P>
<P>The folly of mistaking oneself for an oracle is built right into us. (Paul
Valery) ka</P>
<P>If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my
paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. (Andy
Warhol) sl</P>
<P>As far as painting is concerned there is only Degas and myself. (James Abbot
McNeill Whistler) jb</P>
<P>I am completely focused on my Art. If this makes me self-indulgent, then self-
indulgent I am. No one but me can create what I'm creating. (Bruce Wilcox) jb</P>
<P>I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. (Oscar
Wilde) nb</P>
<P>How, on our necessary islands of ego, do we find challenging and yet comforting
companionship? The child in us can find it. (Mona Youssef) ab</P>
<P>We should stop pandering to our sensitive egos and be strong men and women whose
only desire is to make ever better, more beautiful art, knowing full well that we
all fall short of the glory of God. (Gertjan Zwiggelaar) rg</P>
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<P><A name=emotion>Emotion</A></P>
<P>Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires
others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened
thoroughly. (Meher Baba) trm</P>
<P>All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as
landscapes their variety from light. (Francis Bacon) gr</P>
<P>Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they
naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely
is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest
paintings. (Francis Bacon) jb</P>
<P>I don't bother with my negative emotions. I don't trust them; I don't listen to
them. (Theresa Bayer) ba</P>
<P>Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does,
and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
(Ingmar Bergman) bcm</P>
<P>Agonies thrilled through me as if my blood were running ice cold in my veins. I
stopped composing. My mind became feebler as my feelings grew more intense. (Hector
Berlioz) ba</P>
<P>All painting should be emotional painting. (Judi Betts) df</P>
<P>The state of our heart at the moment of applying paint to canvas gets into the
mix somehow. What our audience actually 'gets' when they regard our work is simply
how we felt while we were doing it. (Eleanor Blair) ba</P>
<P>Draw what you see; paint what you feel. (Francis Boag) df</P>
<P>Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has
rationalized his emotions. (David Borenstein) js</P>
<P>Emotion doesn't have to be happiness. (Rex Brandt) df</P>
<P>Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater.
Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you
rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness? (Ben Brantley) bcm</P>
<P>Emotion should not be rendered by an excited trembling; it can neither be added
on nor be imitated. It is the seed, the work is the flower. (Georges Braque) jb</P>
<P>Many artists like to rush forward thinking that their pure "emotions" are more
important on the paper than good proportions... eventually having to return into
clumsy areas and correct, correct, correct. That's when the freshness disappears.
(Harley Brown) ab</P>
<P>We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the
picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the
contemplation of a work of art. (John F. Carlson) sj</P>
<P>A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. (Paul Cezanne) tm</P>
<P>If the emotion is strong enough, so is the painting. Orgasmic painting? I think,
if truth be told, we all know what that is. (Jane Champagne) ba</P>
<P>One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings. (Jean-Baptiste-
Simeon Chardin) df</P>
<P>Our full range of emotions is our palette with which we bring color to our
lives. (Anne Copeland) ab</P>
<P>Never lose the first impression which has moved you. (Camille Corot) tm</P>
<P>How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of
feeling. (Claude Debussy) ba</P>
<P>First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep,
shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. [appeal made to
artists] (Denis Diderot) sr</P>
<P>A painting is good not because it looks like something but rather because it
feels like something. (Phil Dike) df</P>
<P>Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct,
passion, mood, violence, madness. (Jean Dubuffet) jb</P>
<P>It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than reason
by which men are moved. (Irwin Edman) bcm</P>
<P>Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way.
(Eight-year-old) rr</P>
<P>Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the
emotion. (T. S. Eliot) df</P>
<P>In the general mess of imprecision of feeling, / Undisciplined squads of
emotion. (T. S. Eliot) bcm</P>
<P>In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) js</P>
<P>What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's response is always right.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) bcm</P>
<P>I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking. (Joanna
Field) rg</P>
<P>Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. (Zelda
Fitzgerald) bcm</P>
<P>If the artist sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting
what he sees before him. (Caspar David Friedrich) tm</P>
<P>The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may
have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn. (Lucian Freud) jb</P>
<P>I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say, 'he feels deeply, he
feels tenderly.' (Vincent Van Gogh) tm</P>
<P>The feeling for things themselves, for reality, is more important than the
feeling for the picture. (Vincent Van Gogh) jb</P>
<P>The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody. (Lama
Govinda) jm</P>
<P>Paint from your soul. Paint what touches your heart and paint it in a way that
lifts your spirit. Then not only will you be sharing a part of yourself with
others, you will stir the viewer's emotion. This is what people remember not how
cleverly you have painted something... (Susan Harrison-Tustain) ba</P>
<P>You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time
you work. (Robert Henri) gr</P>
<P>Once we artists have completed all of our formal art training and mastered our
skills in drawing, composition, color and the rest of the technical foundation
needed for creating good art, it is then important to look inward... we must paint
what we feel. (Sidney Hermel) ba</P>
<P>A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them.
They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid. (Howard Hodgkin) mb</P>
<P>When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and
makes you giddy. (Ferdinand Hodler) ka</P>
<P>It's important to avoid being controlled by your emotions. You need to be aware
of what you are feeling, but those feelings should not determine what you do.
(Steve Hovland on motivation) ba</P>
<P>Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is
merely a form of emotional masturbation... (Aldous Huxley) js</P>
<P>The nature of anguish is translated into different forms. (Franz Kline) ba</P>
<P>No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes. (Kathe
Kollwitz) sl</P>
<P>Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the
life of feeling. (Suzanne Langer) sl</P>
<P>Art is the objectification of feeling. (Suzanne Langer) sl</P>
<P>People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one
good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. (Robert Keith Leavitt) bcm</P>
<P>My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but
passion. (Rico Lebrun) jb</P>
<P>It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting... is
a source of deep psychological satisfaction... It is a system which can also in
some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human
relationships... (Mervyn Levy) sr</P>
<P>When I feel what I see, I paint what I feel. (Dick Lewis) df</P>
<P>Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. (Audre Lorde) js</P>
<P>The mood you see in my paintings was never there. It was superimposed from
another place. (Tom Lynch) ab</P>
<P>The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a
machine masquerading as a person. (Eric Maisel) jb</P>
<P>Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. (Agnes Martin)
df</P>
<P>Works of art are made of concept, material... and feeling. (Kenneth Martin)
ba</P>
<P>I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing
its leaves one by one in the common language, but [only] after identifying myself
with it. (Henri Matisse) df</P>
<P>I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of
expressing it. (Henri Matisse) df</P>
<P>Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist.
His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could
make it more so. (Henri Matisse) jb</P>
<P>I feel terrific things when I put a hole through a work. I am really making
doorways and that is something with which I have always been fascinated. (Elza
Mayhew) df</P>
<P>My heart shall be thy garden. (Alice Meynell) nb</P>
<P>The most important thing is to get emotion out of an inert object. (Ronald
Miller) ka</P>
<P>The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and
eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and
line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into
an aesthetic emotion. (David Milne) df</P>
<P>Curves are so emotional. (Piet Mondrian) df</P>
<P>The game is organizing states of feeling. (Robert Motherwell) df</P>
<P>One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the
landscape you were feeling as you started the painting. (Sidney Nolan) gr</P>
<P>There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
(Michael Ondaatje) ba</P>
<P>Now and then art gives that particular emotion, ecstasy, which is of so
priceless a quality that there is no standard by which to measure it, one of those
rare emotions which redeem life from monotony, triviality and futility. (Lockie
Parker) sr</P>
<P>The heart has its reasons which reason does not know. (Blaise Pascal) nb</P>
<P>Science strives to achieve unity of fact. Art strives to achieve unity of
feeling. (Stephen Pepper) df</P>
<P>A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record
of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved a human heart, and according as it
is well or ill done it moves the hearts of others. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>What I want is that my picture should evoke nothing but emotion. (Pablo Picasso)
jb</P>
<P>The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from
the sky, from the earth, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. (Pablo Picasso)
rg</P>
<P>I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them. (Jackson Pollock) df</P>
<P>I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic. (Marcel Proust)
nb</P>
<P>Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it. (Howard Pyle)
jb</P>
<P>Color is the most emotional element that we, as painters, have. And if it is
used well, color can go a long way toward expressing an artist's intention or
enhancing a mood. (Stephen Quiller) jb</P>
<P>I have a feeling only for shadows. (Odilon Redon) ka</P>
<P>The true test of all the arts is not solely whether the production is a true
copy of nature, but whether it answers the end of art, which is to produce a
pleasing effect upon the mind. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr</P>
<P>The intellect is always fooled by the heart. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
ba</P>
<P>I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar,
because his emotion reveals to him the hidden truths beneath appearances. (Auguste
Rodin) gr</P>
<P>I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot
of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can
communicate these basic human emotions. (Mark Rothko) df</P>
<P>I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on
as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply. (May Sarton) ba</P>
<P>To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient
Chinese called "making stone into gold". It is alchemy. (Li Shan) ab</P>
<P>I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. (Igor
Stravinsky) ba</P>
<P>The accuracy of the image becomes less important if the feel of the subject can
be emulated. This can be achieved through well-planned composition and a free
application of the medium. (Ken Strong) ab</P>
<P>Light breaks where no sun shines; / Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart /
Push in their tides. (Dylan Thomas) ba</P>
<P>People don't necessarily want to learn from art. They want to connect to it
emotionally. (Aleksander Titovets) ba</P>
<P>Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously by means of
certain signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others
are infected by those feelings and experience them. (Leo Tolstoy) df</P>
<P>Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into
feeling. (Leo Tolstoy) tm</P>
<P>Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy. (Leo
Tolstoy) ba</P>
<P>Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five
percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.
(Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>What tasks the man did set himself in the painting of a white apron with which
he was as much in love as the face of a person. [on Bastien-Lepage] (John H.
Twachtman) jb</P>
<P>When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my
eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. (Giuseppe Verdi) ba</P>
<P>Art should be independent of all clap-trap should stand alone, and appeal to
the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely
foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. (James Abbot
McNeill Whistler) gr</P>
<P>I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone
purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations. (Jack White)
ba</P>
<P>A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion
without paying for it. (Oscar Wilde) ka</P>
<P>The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness. (Winkelmann)
sg</P>
<P>When the emotions are strong... one should paint bamboo; in a light mood one
should paint the orchid. (Chueh Yin) gr</P>
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<P><A name=encouragement>Encouragement</A></P>
<P>There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about
through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or
successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause. (George Matthew Adams)
vw</P>
<P>To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which
have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. (Phillip Brooks)
bcm</P>
<P>Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders
and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a
new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sg</P>
<P>When you bend to lift up be gentle allow that they [artists] are to be kings
and queens of their own solitudes. (Robert Genn) jb</P>
<P>Correction does much, but encouragement does more. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
bcm</P>
<P>Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I
feel like giving up! (Max Liebermann) gr</P>
<P>It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out
of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate. (Eric Maisel)
ba</P>
<P>My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated,
and I'll always be grateful to them for that. (Graham Nash) ba</P>
<P>Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. (Greek proverb) lc</P>
<P>It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do
it well. (George Santayana) ba</P>
<P>Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger
thing well, too. (Joseph Storey) sl</P>
<P>Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
(William A. Ward) sh</P>
<P>To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to
his country. (George Washington) js</P>
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<P><A name=energy>Energy</A></P>
<P>I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, "Relax!" (Elias Canetti) la</P>
<P>The world belongs to the energetic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) fb</P>
<P>Talk therapy is a good way to tap your deep energies. (Steve Hovland) ba</P>
<P>Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained
stability based on the play of energies. (Paul Klee) df</P>
<P>When any one of us is aligned with our purpose, there is an inexhaustible source
of energy. Once you're aligned with your purpose, the energy is always there to do
whatever you need. You never get tired, and you do everything with a sense of joy.
It's actually effortless it's a flow. (Dennis Kucinich) ae</P>
<P>I work in bursts of energy... like mad fires let loose into nervous breakdowns.
And it affected everyone in my life. Perhaps it was God's design to give me a wife
who was trained as a psychiatric nurse. (Alfredo Liongoren) df</P>
<P>For a long time, I could not tame the energy and dreaded it. (Alfredo Liongoren)
df</P>
<P>Energy and perseverance can fit a man for almost any kind of position. (Theodore
F. Merseles) lc</P>
<P>A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent
of the subject it may represent. (Henry Moore) df</P>
<P>We perceive abstraction and figuration as contradictory. In contradiction lies
energy most things that are important come in part out of contradiction.
(Catherine Murphy) df</P>
<P>Don't wait for what you need put in the energy to create what you need. (David
Oleski) ka</P>
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<P><A name=enthusiasm>Enthusiasm</A></P>
<P>Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire. (George Matthew Adams)
lc</P>
<P>I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. (Sir Edward Victor Appleton)
bcm</P>
<P>The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. (H.
W. Arnold) sl</P>
<P>Enthusiasm moves the world. (Arthur James Balfour) sl</P>
<P>In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be
insane on proper occasions. (Henry Ward Beecher) sl</P>
<P>One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man
who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. (Edward B. Butler) sl</P>
<P>Enthusiasm is not an emotional state. It is a spiritual commitment, a loving
surrender to our creative process. Enthusiasm (from the Greek, "filled with God")
is an ongoing energy supply tapped into the flow of life itself. (Julia Cameron)
bl</P>
<P>Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your
enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill) ab</P>
<P>You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. (Colette) sj</P>
<P>Enthusiasm reflects confidence, spreads good cheers, raises morale, inspires
associates, arouses loyalty, and laughs at adversity... it is beyond price. (Allan
Cox) lc</P>
<P>Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. (Benjamin
Disraeli) sl</P>
<P>Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of
the understanding. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever
achieved. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of
enthusiasm. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) lc</P>
<P>People who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes) bcm</P>
<P>I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Anatole
France) bcm</P>
<P>I intend for my paintings to reflect an enthusiastic response to the world
around me perhaps, more simply stated, a celebration of being. (Tom Francesconi)
ka</P>
<P>A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a
growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically. (Robert Genn)
jb</P>
<P>Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life. (Vincent Van Gogh) tm</P>
<P>We lived in a continuous blaze of enthusiasm... Above all we loved this country
and loved exploring and painting it... (Lawren Harris) gr</P>
<P>Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or
woman. (Conrad Hilton) sl</P>
<P>We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when
all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles
Kingsley) dr</P>
<P>I was overcome with an attack of pathological enthusiasm. (Robert Lowell) ka</P>
<P>Preliminary pencil sketches can diminish our enthusiasm to paint. (Tom Lynch)
ab</P>
<P>The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. (William McFee) sl</P>
<P>Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It's enough to drive one
mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it. (Claude
Monet as a young painter) ab</P>
<P>I'm not lacking for enthusiasm as you can see, given that I have something like
65 canvases covered with paint and I'll be needing more since the place is quite
out of the ordinary; so I'm going to order some more canvases... (Claude Monet to
Alice Monet) ba</P>
<P>It is a fine thing to see people in hot earnest about anything. (John Muir)
jh</P>
<P>There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity
and accomplishment. (Norman Vincent Peale) sl</P>
<P>Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm
either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration
in the studio, but not impossible. (Walter J. Phillips) ka</P>
<P>When we are enthusiastic we are intoxicated with passion rooted in our true
selves and it flows into all we do. (Linda Saccoccio) ba</P>
<P>If variety is what it takes to peek and maintain one's enthusiasm, so be it.
(Sandy Sandy) ka</P>
<P>A person can succeed at anything for which there is enthusiasm. (Charles M.
Schwab) lc</P>
<P>Enthusiasm, like the breath of God, transforms everything. (Gail Sher) js</P>
<P>Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm. (Arnold J. Toynbee) lc</P>
<P>National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. (Tuckerman) vw</P>
<P>Enthusiasm, like measles, mumps, and the common cold, is highly contagious.
(Emory Ward) lc</P>
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<P><A name=environment>Environment</A></P>
<P>Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your
heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest
thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly
environment; of these, if you but remain true to them your world will at last be
built. (James Allen) ka</P>
<P>A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his
fathers but borrowed from his children. (John James Audubon) ae</P>
<P>The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea
becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting. (Gerald Brommer)
gr</P>
<P>The world either breaks or hardens the heart. (Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de
Chamfort) bcm</P>
<P>For... first artists, the native people, art was not only of a functional
nature, but also linked to their concepts of religion and the relationship of man
to his environment. (James J. Kurtz) jb</P>
<P>It is impossible for me to make a painting which has no reference to the
powerful environment in which I live. (Peter Lanyon) df</P>
<P>It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art. (Marshall
McLuhan) sl</P>
<P>Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be
beautiful. (William Morris) tm</P>
<P>Connection with uncorrupted nature is a rare and endangered experience in
today's expanding urban environment. (Rebecca Perehudoff) jb</P>
<P>All my paintings are direct responses to my environment... the image before me
does not have to be dramatic; an intimate view of wildflowers gets the same
attention as a spectacular sunset. (Jim Petty) ka</P>
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<P><A name=eroticism>Eroticism</A></P>
<P>Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?
(Pietro Aretino) bcm</P>
<P>What is erotic, like taste in art, is subjective. (Kelly Borsheim) ka</P>
<P>Obscenity is such a tiny kingdom that a single tour covers it completely.
(Heywood Broun) bcm</P>
<P>Sneaky sex. Gets in everything these days. Why you can't even use greasy, juicy
paint without having some inappropriate suggestiveness come up. (Karen Fitzgerald)
jb</P>
<P>The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them
irrespective of subject matter. (Lucian Freud) jb</P>
<P>Why can't we all just acknowledge that "nature" that is, "sex" or "erotic"
images, which are really just "attracters" are everywhere. Of course a flower looks
like what it looks like that's what it is to a bee. (Sara Genn) jb</P>
<P>Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic
emotion... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer
art. (Remy de Gourmont) js</P>
<P>Even the most innocent of images can send subliminal messages [of an erotic
nature]. (Julie Rodriguez Jones) ba</P>
<P>The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. (Gloria Leonard)
ap</P>
<P>All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of
erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying
down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her. (Adolf Loos) df</P>
<P>Schiele's eroticism... expresses human bondage and is to be understood as a
burden that is painful to bear. (Erwin Mitsch on Egon Schiele) jb</P>
<P>The erotic aspect of my art is not pornography but magic, animation and
evocation. My figuration makes no references to figurative art or to pop art, but
arises simply because I view this world from inside a human figure and tend to feel
affinity with things which appear human. (Victor Newsome) df</P>
<P>I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more
than sit on its ass in a museum. (Claes Oldenburg) br</P>
<P>The difference between eroticism and pornography is one of art. (Andre Salvet)
df</P>
<P>I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But
they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures?
(Egon Schiele) jb</P>
<P>I am an abstract artist in the sense that I abstract. I cannot be called non-
figurative while I am still interested in the modern magic of space, primitive sex
forms, the sensual and erotic, disconcerting contours, the things of life. (William
Scott) df</P>
<P>The most refined form of sexual attractiveness as well as the most refined
form of sexual pleasure consists in going against the grain of one's sex. (Susan
Sontag) js</P>
<P>To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the "straight" public sense in which
something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.
(Susan Sontag) js</P>
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<P><A name=evolution>Evolution</A></P>
<P>I realized my progress as an artist was an evolution, a kind of natural
selection in a highly competitive environment, as unpleasantly Darwinian as any
endangered bee-eater. (Joseph P. Blodgett) rg</P>
<P>Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct
organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing
ourselves, not things that enslave us. (Guy Debord) sl</P>
<P>Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a
hundred years ago is no longer so today. (Alberto Giacometti) jb</P>
<P>You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process. (Mary
Beth McKenzie) ab</P>
<P>I like a painting to evolve. I don't like going through the motions to reach a
predictable end. (Amanda McLean) ba</P>
<P>The whole sequence of evolution seems somehow to correspond to continued births,
rebirths, and new births. (Otto Rank) ka</P>
<P>The artist is an educator of artists of the future... who are able to understand
and in the process of understanding perform unexpected the best evolutions.
(Saul Steinberg) sl</P>
<P>I need a lot of change. I can't stop at one level. I just keep on evolving.
(Martha Sturdy) ba</P>
<P>Evolution of the art reflects the evolution of the person. After dramatic
developments in the artist's life, the art will reflect the changes. (unknown)
jb</P>
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<P><A name=excellence>Excellence</A></P>
<P>The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. (Shana Alexander) bcm</P>
<P>I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the
extent of my power and dominion. (Alexander the Great) dr</P>
<P>The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but
in the excellence of the work he produces. (St. Thomas Aquinas) sl</P>
<P>Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly
because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have
acted rightly. (Aristotle) ab</P>
<P>We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
(Aristotle) sh</P>
<P>Prospects do not buy how good you are at what you do. They buy how good you are
at who you are. (Harry Beckwith) sl</P>
<P>Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more
sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and
rewarding; striving for perfection in practically anything is both neurotic and
futile. (Edwin Bliss) sl</P>
<P>I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. (Ashleigh
Brilliant) sl</P>
<P>Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done. (Julia Cameron)
sj</P>
<P>Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. (Earl of Chesterfield)
nb</P>
<P>Just as good, isn't. (Julia Child) dr</P>
<P>It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last
as long as life. [of Sweden, 1629-1689] (Queen Christina) bcm</P>
<P>Errors like straws upon the surface flow: / Who would search for pearls must
dive below. (John Dryden) sh</P>
<P>Encouraging excellence and work of rare beauty... gives the creator a measure of
trade security since excellence cannot be copied cheaply. This also elevates the
craftsperson of unskilled labour to artisan. (Lloyd Dykk) ba</P>
<P>If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you
hate. (Eight-year-old) rr</P>
<P>One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves
most excellent. (Epictetus) vw</P>
<P>One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that
everything afterward savors of anti-climax. (F. Scott Fitzgerald) ba</P>
<P>Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust
upon them. (John W. Gardner) sl</P>
<P>Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to
be a belle. (Lord Lyttelton George) bcm</P>
<P>In art the best is good enough. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) sl</P>
<P>There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence, that we can scarce weed
out the fault without eradicating the virtue. (Oliver Goldsmith) nb</P>
<P>My parents always told me that people will never know how long it takes you to
do something. They will only know how well it is done. (Nancy Hanks) lc</P>
<P>We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to
obtain excellence. (Eric Hoffer) bcm</P>
<P>Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again. (A. E. Housman)
ab</P>
<P>Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better
is best. (St. Jerome) pd</P>
<P>Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it
is not to be purchased at a lesser price. (Samuel Johnson) sl</P>
<P>The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all
disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and
truth. (John Keats) jb</P>
<P>If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo
painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep
streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here
lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King-Jr.) sl</P>
<P>All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be
undertaken with painstaking excellence. (Martin Luther King-Jr.) sh</P>
<P>There's only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best
is anything but the second-best. (Doris Lessing) gr</P>
<P>The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to
excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. (Vince Lombardi) dr</P>
<P>In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is
simplicity. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) bcm</P>
<P>More detail doesn't necessarily mean a better painting, it just means more
detail. (Tom Lynch) df</P>
<P>In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab
those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity
into bright and shining excellence. (Ralph Marston) js</P>
<P>It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it. (W. Somerset Maugham) sj</P>
<P>There is no excellency without difficulty. (Ovid) vw</P>
<P>While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the
fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must
originally flow. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr</P>
<P>We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we
excel in those which can also make use of our defects. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
sh</P>
<P>The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self-esteem is excellence, mastery
of your work. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
(Brian Tracy) jb</P>
<P>If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second,
quit doing less-than-excellent work. (Thomas J. Watson) sl</P>
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<P><A name=exhaustion>Exhaustion</A></P>
<P>The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. (Max Beerbohm)
jb</P>
<P>I painted until I was exhausted. Then I forced myself to do another and it was
the best thing I've done for weeks. (Joseph P. Blodgett) rg</P>
<P>Better to wear out than rust out. (Bishop Cumberland) js</P>
<P>An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) js</P>
<P>Day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. (Ursula
Kroeber Le Guin) bcm
<P>Fatigue makes cowards of us all. (Vince Lombardi) js</P>
<P>I firmly believe that any man's finest hour his greatest fulfillment to all he
holds dear... is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and
lies exhausted on the field of battle victorious. (Vince Lombardi) tmp</P>
<P>No one ever went broke by saying no too often. (Harvey Mackay) js</P>
<P>I'm knocked out, I've never felt so physically and mentally exhausted, I'm quite
stupid with it and long only for bed; but I am happy... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I am exhausted... A task like this is possible for a month but for more than two
it's murderous... (Claude Monet painting in Bordighera, Italy) ba</P>
<P>Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to
the point of exhaustion. (Friedrich Nietzsche) js</P>
<P>Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary... (Edgar Allan
Poe) vw</P>
<P>Everything worth doing is exhausting. (John Polanyi) df</P>
<P>Every seed knows its time all in good time. (Russian proverb) js</P>
<P>The tired spirit is a hungry spirit. (Faith Puleston) ka</P>
<P>For every mountain there is a miracle. (Robert H. Schuller) js</P>
<P>It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your
shoe. (Robert W. Service) js</P>
<P>Oh Lord, you give us everything at the price of fatigue! (Leonardo da Vinci)
js</P>
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<P><A name=exhibitions>Exhibitions</A></P>
<P>The pressure of constantly showing work motivates me to paint every day. (Linda
Blondheim) ab</P>
<P>The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming
articles of trade, following as such the unreasoning laws of markets and fashion;
and public and even private patronage is swayed by their tyrannical influence.
[1851] (Prince Albert) jb</P>
<P>My greatest joy is expressing one cohesive thought within a "body" of work that
can be shown in its entirety. (Kathleen Cavender) ab</P>
<P>The time of year when the devil comes and spews art over London. (John Constable
on the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition) jb</P>
<P>There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the
work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to
an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best
advantage. (Robert Genn) jb</P>
<P>These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large
to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually
are. (Childe Hassam on Ten American Painters) jb</P>
<P>Art exhibitions come alive in the form of street fairs, formal juried shows, or
as organized "open studios"... This bounty of skilled artists, notable art
competitions, progressive community art festivals and sophisticated buyers is a
genuine inspiration... (Karen Honaker) gr</P>
<P>Well, something must be done for May, / The time is drawing nigh / To figure
in the Catalogue, / And woo the public eye. (Thomas Hood) jb</P>
<P>I must take this opportunity again to warn you and Mr. Dilworth that none of my
sketches, oil or pencil, are good enough to exhibit... but... will supply me with
enough subject material for several years of painting. (E. J. Hughes to Lawren
Harris) ka</P>
<P>When we artists put a painting on the wall at an exhibition, we bare our
souls... At that time, everyone becomes a critic. (Sidney Hermel) ba</P>
<P>It gives me the feeling that I should continue heading in the direction I am
taking. (E. J. Hughes on seeing his 1967 retrospective) ka</P>
<P>The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads
itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought
to be abolished. (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres) gr</P>
<P>With the collective exhibitions we have always held and too often repeated, we
will finish up with public curiosity satiated and the Press still against us.
(Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I hear that my friends are preparing another exhibition this year but I must
discount the possibility of participating in it since I have nothing worth showing.
(Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I am pleased with the exhibition... everything on display was sold for a good
price to decent people. It has been a long time since I believed that you could
educate public taste... (Claude Monet to Berthe Morisot) ba</P>
<P>It would be a very bad idea... to exhibit even a small number of this new
series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire
group. (Claude Monet to Paul Durand-Ruel) ba</P>
<P>A lot of professional artists do not participate in shows with awards but rather
the shows that present all artists equally. Let the public be the judges by buying
their art without the bias of a juror's opinion. (Charles Morris) ab</P>
<P>Every artist ought to be an exhibitionist. (Egbert Oudendag) rg</P>
<P>It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an
unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention
to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is
expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.
(Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing
the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of
people who resort to them. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) jb</P>
<P>A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his
shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody
admires his picture? (Rudolf Steiner) js</P>
<P>A one-man show should contain as varied a collection as possible; this means it
should have figures, landscapes and still-lives of different periods. (Max Stern to
E. J. Hughes) ka</P>
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<P><A name=expectation>Expectation</A></P>
<P>Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect
abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. (Eileen Caddy) sj</P>
<P>When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two
things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the
explanation. (Alexander Calder) gr</P>
<P>I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog without
being expected to take it home with me. (Frank A. Clark) ap</P>
<P>As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually
not received at all. (Peter Drucker) bcm</P>
<P>No one expects the days to be gods. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) rg</P>
<P>The threshold is the place of expectation. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) gr</P>
<P>Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual
whim. Told the public what he wanted it to know, not the time worn things the
public already knew and thought it wanted to hear again. The public was very much
offended. (Robert Henri) gr</P>
<P>If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not find it; for it is hard to be
sought out and difficult. (Heraclitus) js</P>
<P>Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of
experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my
race. (James Joyce) jb</P>
<P>High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Jack
Kinder) sg</P>
<P>Focusing on aspects of interaction and relationship rather than on art objects
calls for a radical rearrangement in our expectation of what an artist does.
(Suzanne Lacey) df</P>
<P>I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right
thing for me that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect
it. (Louise Nevelson) gr</P>
<P>From a slight, undetermined drawing, where the ideas of the composition and
character are just touched upon, the imagination supplies more than the painter
himself, probably, could produce. And we accordingly often find that the finished
work disappoints the expectation that was raised from the sketch... (Sir Joshua
Reynolds) gr</P>
<P>Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after
you've done what you are expected to do. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Each painting should be a surprise journey with an unexpected ending. (Robert E.
Wood) df</P>
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<P><A name=experience>Experience</A></P>
<P>It is an exciting experience when you have all your materials to hand, and
nature, in one of her many moods, is spread out before you. (Lionel Aggett) ba</P>
<P>The emotional and spiritual experience I have when I am painting the
interaction between myself, the paper, and the paint that, to me, is the ultimate
art form. (Brian Atyeo) df</P>
<P>I love to write out of doors and sleep out of doors, too. If I sleep under the
open sky it becomes part of the writing experience, part of my insulation from the
world. (Margaret Bourke-White) ka</P>
<P>Travel, listen, look, learn. Never stand still with what you have; it will leave
you. Keep focused. (Harley Brown) ab</P>
<P>That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, /Lest you should think he
never could recapture /The first fine careless rapture. (Robert Browning) sj</P>
<P>What's done we partly may compute, but know not what's resisted. (Robert Burns)
sj</P>
<P>You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be
sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the
thing. (Emily Carr) sl</P>
<P>The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of
art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work. (Paul Cezanne)
ba</P>
<P>The knowledge of the means of expressing our emotions is only acquired through
very long experience. (Paul Cezanne) rg</P>
<P>Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in
having done all that could be done. (Eugene Delacroix) sl</P>
<P>Over time, experience will think you through the technicalities; the language
will surface not as a language but a translation, a message. (Laurie DeMatteo)
rg</P>
<P>Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We
cannot learn from books. (Benjamin Disraeli) vw</P>
<P>Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. (E. L.
Doctorow) sj</P>
<P>What one has not experienced one will never understand in print. (Isadora
Duncan) bcm</P>
<P>When the soul wants to have an experience of something, she throws an image of
the thing ahead of her and then enters into it. (Meister Johann Eckhart) sl</P>
<P>Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is
blind. (Albert Einstein) bcm</P>
<P>We had the experience, but we missed the meaning. (T. S. Eliot) bcm</P>
<P>Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. (Havelock Ellis) bcm</P>
<P>The years teach much which the days never knew. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) js</P>
<P>Go to an extreme and then retreat to a more useful position. (Brian Eno) bcm</P>
<P>To look outward, to enlarge experience, that is, has always been the first job
of the artist. And it is precisely this which is not only ignored but outspokenly
denied by so many of today's painters and poets. (Margaret Fairley) sl</P>
<P>Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert. (Suzanne
Falter-Barns) de</P>
<P>What experience has shown me is that is takes your life to become an artist.
(Eric Fischl) gr</P>
<P>This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel
the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the
earth. (Frederick Franck) ka</P>
<P>History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks
confusing and messy, and it always looks uncomfortable. (John W. Gardner) bcm</P>
<P>Experience is only half of experience. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) js</P>
<P>One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a
fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. (Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe) bcm</P>
<P>Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a
vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art
galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it
becomes mere icing on the cake. (Anthony Gormley) df</P>
<P>I learned a long time ago that I could try to reinvent the wheel or I could keep
my eyes and ears open and learn from other artists' experiences. (Charles
Harrington) ab</P>
<P>It was an ever clearer and deeply moving experience of oneness with the spirit
of the whole land. It was this spirit which dictated, guided and instructed us how
the land should be painted. (Lawren Harris) gr</P>
<P>If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an
uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us
with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes
it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience. (Lawren
Harris) sl</P>
<P>Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring
of foreboding. (Eric Hoffer) bcm</P>
<P>Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens
to him. (Aldous Huxley) em</P>
<P>Deep experience is never peaceful. (Henry James) bcm</P>
<P>Experience is never limited, and it is never compete; it is an immense
sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in
the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
(Henry James) ba</P>
<P>A painting should contain more experience than simply intended statement.
(Jasper Johns) mb</P>
<P>Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when
you make it again. (Franklin P. Jones) sl</P>
<P>The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care
what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that
matters, the confrontation with things. (Asger Jorn) df</P>
<P>When I was thirteen or fourteen I bought a paintbox with oil paints from money
slowly saved up. The feeling I had at the time or better the experience of
color coming slowly out of the tube is with me to this day. (Wassily Kandinsky)
df</P>
<P>Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced even a proverb is no proverb
to you until your life has illustrated it. (John Keats) ba</P>
<P>Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards
carefully avoid. (John Keats) bcm</P>
<P>Paint represents experience and makes it actual. (Peter Lanyon) df</P>
<P>It is only when we let ourselves be open to experience... to being surprised,
that we can experience anything new... If I decide in advance what the experience
should be, I cannot have a fresh experience. (Lawrence LeShan &amp; Henry Margenau)
df</P>
<P>Only when I experience do I compose only when I compose do I experience.
(Gustav Mahler) rg</P>
<P>We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade. (Eric Maisel)
ka</P>
<P>What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of
human experience? (Rollo May) df</P>
<P>Experience, even for a painter, is not exclusively visual. (Walter Meigs) sj</P>
<P>When you are doing a piece, you are with it. You don't want to wait until next
week, when experience will have given you something else. (Louise Nevelson) sl</P>
<P>Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it,
it won't come out your horn. (Charlie Parker) sj</P>
<P>The artist seeks not truth, but an enlargement of the scope of his ordinary
experience. (J. Rahrer) df</P>
<P>Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. (Joseph
Roux) js</P>
<P>Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember. (Carolee
Schneemann) df</P>
<P>You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness. (Barbara
Smith) df</P>
<P>There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as
colour. (Stephen de Staebler) ka</P>
<P>Let the child go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his
impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while
a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks,
or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead
flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be
got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual
experience. (Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller) lp</P>
<P>The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he
has to open up to new perspectives. (Antoni Tapies) df</P>
<P>How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! (Henry
David Thoreau) ba</P>
<P>However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a
part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no
experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. (Henry
David Thoreau) js</P>
<P>Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has
experienced. (Leo Tolstoy) js</P>
<P>There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it
arrives, you make it welcome with your experience. (Anne Truitt) df</P>
<P>Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
(unknown) bcm</P>
<P>Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for
there you have been, there you long to return. (Leonardo da Vinci) sl</P>
<P>To paint a chicken you have to be a chicken. (Edgar Whitney) df</P>
<P>Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. (Oscar Wilde) js</P>
<P>Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde) lc</P>
<P>If you paint a man leaning over, your own back must ache. (N. C. Wyeth) df</P>
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<P><A name=experiments>Experiments</A></P>
<P>When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what
you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. (Fred Astaire)
bcm</P>
<P>We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with
ideas from the pool of history both distant and more recent despite the
potential for our experiments to fail. (Doug Dawson) ba</P>
<P>A theory can be proven by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the
birth of a theory. (Albert Einstein) bcm</P>
<P>All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. (Ralph
Waldo Emerson) ae</P>
<P>To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment
is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys
causality. (Banesh Hoffman) df</P>
<P>I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't
consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art,
impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting,
which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing. (E. J.
Hughes on his war art) ka</P>
<P>As you can see, at my age 48 Art is still one big experiment. (E. J. Hughes)
ka</P>
<P>Regard everything as an experiment. (Corita Kent) df</P>
<P>In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence
to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the
counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a
drug habit. (Marshall McLuhan) df</P>
<P>How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and
too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style. (oliver)
ab</P>
<P>Experimentation keeps new ideas rising to the surface. (Joseph Orr) ba</P>
<P>I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting
or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with
different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting. (Ron Parker)
ab</P>
<P>I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it
all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest
in the problem wanes. (Pablo Picasso) df</P>
<P>Only when you free yourself to be a mere beginner again, which implies
experimentation, do you progress to the next level of excellence... (Stella
Reinwald) ab</P>
<P>I didn't think; I experimented. (Wilhelm Roentgen) vw</P>
<P>Art, like life, should be free, since they are both experimental. (George
Santayana) df</P>
<P>Art is realm of thought experiments that quicken, sharpen and sweeten our being
in this world. (Wendy Steiner) df</P>
<P>Art flourishes where there is a sense of nothing having been done before, of
complete freedom to experiment; but when caution comes in you get repetition, and
repetition is the death of art. (Alfred North Whitehead) df</P>
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<P><A name=exploration>Exploration</A></P>
<P>In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of
exploration. (Ansel Adams) ba</P>
<P>I am trying to listen to what a certain situation demands, and that means going
outwards, exploring, leaving myself behind. (Julian Bell) df</P>
<P>Each painting is an exploration in unknown country, or as Manet said, it is like
throwing oneself into the sea in order to learn to swim. (Prunella Clough) df</P>
<P>I don't begrudge my education but I wish I had started working on my own
explorations sooner. (Judith D'Agostino) ab</P>
<P>We shall not cease from exploration / And in the end of all our exploring / Will
be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. (T. S.
Eliot) ajs</P>
<P>All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist
sets about his business. (Robert Flaherty) sl</P>
<P>I am mindful to allow for the joy of exploration and discovery within the
framework of each of my works. (Tom Francesconi) ka</P>
<P>There were dozens of lakes, many of them not on the map. For identification
purposes we gave them names. The bright sparkling lakes we named after people we
admired... to the swampy ones, all messed up with moose tracks, we gave the names
of the critics who disparaged us. (A. Y. Jackson) gr</P>
<P>I do not explain, I explore. (Marshall McLuhan) df</P>
<P>My work is not repetition. It is an exploration. (Guido Molinari) df</P>
<P>Meaning is not thought up and then written down. The act of writing is an act of
thought. All writing is experimental in the beginning. It is an attempt to solve a
problem, to find a meaning, to discover its own way towards a meaning. (Donald
Murray) js</P>
<P>What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting
new impressions. (Walter Pater) js</P>
<P>I obliged myself to explore where I might otherwise not have. And that's what
'mind-flexing' is all about making those brain-muscles work so that you feel
empowered to pursue your own vision. (Tony Smibert) ab</P>
<P>I explore the particular with the hope of discovering something microscopically
universal. (Lynda Gaelyn Smith) ba</P>
<P>I'm not lost. I'm exploring. (Jana Stanfield) df</P>
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<P><A name=expression>Expression</A></P>
<P>When an artist is more concerned with what is said than how it is said there is
no art. (Anonymous) nb</P>
<P>In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in
this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
(Simone de Beauvoir) sl</P>
<P>Understate and over-prove. (Frank Bettger) rg</P>
<P>There is something of the essence of creative expression that informs and
transcends all its manifestations and when you touch it magic! (Annie Bevan)
ab</P>
<P>An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer
whose words sound good but have no meaning. (Gerald Brommer) ba</P>
<P>A work of art in paint should be beautiful and expressive as abstract colour and
form and should not interest us necessarily in any 'story' outside of itself or
else it belongs to the field of illustration. (John F. Carlson) sj</P>
<P>There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in
the soul, life speaking to life. (Emily Carr) ka</P>
<P>Get to the heart of what is before you and continue to express yourself as
logically as possible. (Paul Cezanne) ba</P>
<P>One is neither too scrupulous nor too sincere nor too submissive to nature; but
one is more or less master of one's model, and, above all, of the means of
expression. (Paul Cezanne) ba</P>
<P>The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the
artist has acquired. (Gustave Courbet) sl</P>
<P>The only thing better than singing is more singing. (Ella Fitzgerald) bcm</P>
<P>Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.
(Matthew Fox) mra</P>
<P>The inexpressible is the only thing that is worthwhile. (Jerome Frank) df</P>
<P>What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or
philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other
arts. (Naum Gabo) gr</P>
<P>I work in a meditative manner. My visual language is pulled from my unconscious
and I express in my work what I cannot express with words. (Pat Gentenaar-Torley)
df</P>
<P>To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors,
their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To
express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber
background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset
radiance. (Vincent Van Gogh) sa</P>
<P>There have been times when I have found it easier to express what I have seen in
the landscape in words rather than paint. (Lawrence Gowing) df</P>
<P>The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday. (Lawren
Harris) gr</P>
<P>Everything we feel deeply must be expressed. (Hans Hartung) df</P>
<P>The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the
realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.
(Georg Wilhelm Hegel) gr</P>
<P>A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter. (Robert Henri)
am</P>
<P>Technicalities are but means employed by the artist in expressing what he has to
say, and it is the expression that counts. (Edward Alden Jewell) lw</P>
<P>Content starts with an artist's reaction to a subject and develops into an
expression of their relationship with, vision of, and emotions and attitude toward
their subject. (Joyce Kamikura) df</P>
<P>People seem to worry about self-expression that is somehow too personal... Art
has always been personal. (Bonnie Sherr Klein) ba</P>
<P>Any work of art can be looked at as a series of decisions made about problems
that you give yourself about how to express a certain idea. (John Leon) sl</P>
<P>I like to express the whole impact of an experience, rather than one specific
memory. (Nancy Livesay) df</P>
<P>I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. (Henri
Matisse) js</P>
<P>The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the
figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays
a part. (Henri Matisse) df</P>
<P>Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his
soul. (W. Somerset Maugham) js</P>
<P>If the artist has worked with sufficient concentration over the years, he finds
that for the most part he is 'at home' at his most humble, unpretending, best,
most honest in one particular manner of expression. (Elza Mayhew) df</P>
<P>As regards my means of expression, I try my hardest to achieve the maximum of
clarity, power, and plastic aggressiveness; a physical sensation to begin with,
followed up by an impact on the psyche. (Joan Miro) df</P>
<P>In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to
express emotions to assign a linguistic function to color. (Guido Molinari)
df</P>
<P>Everything is expressed through relationships. (Piet Mondrian) df</P>
<P>Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of
function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual
vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses. (Henry Moore)
jb</P>
<P>It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are
taken from your own experience. (Berthe Morisot) tm</P>
<P>In a way, painting is like wine: it is as old, as simple, as primitive and as
varied. Like wine, it is a very specific means of expression, with a limited
vocabulary, but vast in its expressive potential. (Robert Motherwell) df</P>
<P>I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do no matter who
they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself? (Georgia O'Keeffe) df</P>
<P>I decided that expressionism was a cheap way of getting a reaction show
anybody ripped apart, and you get sympathy. I was deliberately trying to show the
human body as whole and relatively healthy. (Philip Pearlstein) jb</P>
<P>The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression. (Walter
J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Despite any will I may have in the matter, what I express interests me more than
my ideas. (Pablo Picasso) jb</P>
<P>Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial
digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime
without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute. (Marcel
Proust) nb</P>
<P>Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. (Kate Reid)
nb</P>
<P>Style in painting is the same as in writing a power over materials, whether
words or colours, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed. (Sir Joshua
Reynolds) nb</P>
<P>Most events are inexpressible, taking place in a realm which no word has ever
entered, and more inexpressible than all else are works of art, mysterious
existences, the life of which, while ours passes away, endures. (Rainer Maria
Rilke) gir</P>
<P>I don't express myself in my paintings. I express my not-self. (Mark Rothko)
ka</P>
<P>The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.
(Albert Pinkham Ryder) js</P>
<P>Beyond useless discussions of figurative or abstract art is the imperious
necessity to express oneself as one is, making ours all the energetic possibilities
of the universe. (Antonio Saura) ka</P>
<P>As an artist you may spend years searching for expression. When you find the
medium you truly love, expression finds you. (Cindy Testerink) ct</P>
<P>Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
(Mark Twain) rg</P>
<P>We must always apologize for talking painting. (Paul Valery) df</P>
<P>There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be
expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences. (Georges Vantongerloo)
gr</P>
<P>In searching for a fresh vocabulary of expression... painters sought inspiration
in arts formerly perceived to be 'primitive' and naive or as standing somehow at
the childhood of art. (Joan M. Vastokas) df</P>
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<P><A name=failure>Failure</A></P>
<P>A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he gives up. (Anonymous)
lc</P>
<P>When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up. (Roger W. Babson)
ka</P>
<P>I never know where I am going with a painting. I only know where I've been, and
frankly, I believe that every painter is in a state of continual failure. The only
constant in a painter's life is failure. (William Bailey) jb</P>
<P>Failure is the mechanism of learning. (Geoffrey Ballard) df</P>
<P>To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail... failure is his world and to
shrink from it desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living... (Samuel
Beckett) df</P>
<P>Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. (Samuel
Beckett) de</P>
<P>Without fail, three or four hideous paintings down the road, an absolutely
wonderful painting appears. A painting that is a better painting than I know how to
do. A painting that feels effortless. (Eleanor Blair) ba</P>
<P>Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes
most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying. (Frank Burford)
bcm</P>
<P>A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame
somebody else. (John Burroughs) bcm</P>
<P>Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of
making excuses. (George Washington Carver) sl</P>
<P>Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
(Coco Chanel) sl</P>
<P>Failure is the line of least persistence. (W. A. Clarke) lc</P>
<P>An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. (Charles Horton Cooley) js</P>
<P>I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please
everyone. (Bill Cosby) sl</P>
<P>If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. (Quentin Crisp)
bcm</P>
<P>Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be
discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than
you should. (Charles Dickens) js</P>
<P>Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished
success. (Edward Dowden) bcm</P>
<P>Failures are events, not people. (Faith Duck) fd</P>
<P>Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. (Thomas
Edison) sl</P>
<P>Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to
success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison) sl</P>
<P>The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we
pass it so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it. (Ralph Waldo
Emerson) sl</P>
<P>I had to come to terms with my failure as an artist... I had to find a way for
myself. (Tracey Emin) mb</P>
<P>Don't find a fault; find a remedy. (Henry Ford) lc</P>
<P>Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. (Henry Ford)
bcm</P>
<P>All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will
always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure. I don't know if I
work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to
do. (Alberto Giacometti) df</P>
<P>I've failed again! (Vincent Van Gogh) df</P>
<P>Blocks produce in the artist an attitude of pessimism and defeat. He loses that
necessary touch of arrogance; the drive to produce new things fades; the mind is
blunted. (Lawrence Hatterer) ba</P>
<P>A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. (Ernest Hemingway) js</P>
<P>All men of goodwill have this in common that our works put us to shame.
(Hermann Hesse) ba</P>
<P>A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the
experience. (Elbert Hubbard) em</P>
<P>Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments responding to
them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from
them. [on Dickens' Great Expectations] (John Irving) ap</P>
<P>I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that
didn't matter that would be my life. (Jasper Johns) jb</P>
<P>Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is,
in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false
leads us to seek earnestly after what is true... (John Keats) bcm</P>
<P>It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts. (Oscar Levant)
js</P>
<P>In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. (Cassiu Longinus) lc</P>
<P>Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic
if they know failure and little else... (Eric Maisel) jb</P>
<P>The only people who never fail are those who never, never try. (Og Mandino)
sl</P>
<P>If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own
being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also you will have betrayed our community
in failing to make your contribution to the whole. (Rollo May) df</P>
<P>He who has never failed somewhere... that man cannot be great. (Herman Melville)
gr</P>
<P>Failures can be divided into those who thought and never did, and those who did
and never thought. (W. A. Nance) lc</P>
<P>Some drawings are better than others... Some are utterly spoiled... I keep them
all. I find a use sometimes even for the worst drawing... But their chief use is to
mortify one's conceit, to show how thoroughly incompetent it is possible to be, and
to shame one into better ways. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Failure is only in the shadows of a great prize a shadow that evaporates when
you choose to be bold and shine from within. (Todd Plough) ba</P>
<P>He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist. (Auguste Rodin)
arp</P>
<P>Re-priming paintings gives the feeling of removing collected badness. (Yaroslaw
Rozputnyak) ab</P>
<P>Failures are divided into two classes: those who thought and never did, and
those who did and never thought. (John Charles Salak) js</P>
<P>One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the
separation of art and science. (Gino Severini) gr</P>
<P>But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. (William
Shakespeare) sl</P>
<P>When I was a young man, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were
failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work. (George
Bernard Shaw) lc</P>
<P>The minute you start thinking about what you're going to do if you lose, you
have lost. (George P. Shultz) lc</P>
<P>You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
(Beverly Sills) lc</P>
<P>Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much. Surely that may be
his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed. (Robert Louis Stevenson) rg</P>
<P>Every path you take educates you and leads you to the next. (Martha Sturdy)
ba</P>
<P>More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. (Billy Sunday) lc</P>
<P>I'm a failed conceptual painter. The times we live in demand it... I also see
myself as a failed copyist. I intentionally get everything wrong. (Monica Tap)
df</P>
<P>Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then
a skillful join must be made. (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) ka</P>
<P>It's hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. (James
Thurber) sl</P>
<P>Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like
their greatest failure. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Remember, you only have to succeed the last time. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>It is not failure itself that holds you back; it is the fear of failure that
paralyses you. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster,
double your rate of failure. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones. (Author unknown) sl</P>
<P>The crime is not to avoid failure. The crime is not to give triumph a chance.
(Huw Wheldon) ba</P>
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<P><A name=fashion>Fashion</A></P>
<P>The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for
the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the
necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is <I>this</I> ugly bit
of business?' (Abe Ajay) df</P>
<P>Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
(Bettina Ballard) bcm</P>
<P>Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its
back on bad and good alike. (Eric Bently) js</P>
<P>Fashion is made to become unfashionable. (Coco Chanel) rg</P>
<P>There's never a new fashion but it's old. (Chaucer) js</P>
<P>Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with
time. (Jean Cocteau) js</P>
<P>The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by
fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher... (John Constable) gr</P>
<P>Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. (Quentin Crisp)
bcm</P>
<P>For a traditional painter it is well worthwhile to live to a great age. You
never know when you may find yourself in fashion again. (Bernard Dunstan) df</P>
<P>Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to
affect ignorance. (Baltasar Gracian) js</P>
<P>Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is
haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and
fantastical, all in a breath tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim
of the minute. (William Hazlitt) js</P>
<P>I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. (Lillian
Hellman) gr</P>
<P>There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or
later: namely, Novelty, novelty, novelty. (Thomas Hood) nb</P>
<P>Whatever is not eternal is eternally out of date. (C. S. Lewis) bcm</P>
<P>In words as fashions the same rule will hold, / Alike fantastic if too new or
old; / Be not the first by whom the new are tried, / Nor yet the last to lay the
old aside. (Alexander Pope) em</P>
<P>You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad,
at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which
you ought to steer. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr</P>
<P>He who always goes against the fashion is himself its slave. (Francois de La
Rochefoucauld) bcm</P>
<P>For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be
always old-fashioned. (George Santayana) ba</P>
<P>Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. (George Bernard Shaw) ka</P>
<P>Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and
the lasting. (E. C. Stedman) js</P>
<P>Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
(Henry David Thoreau) js</P>
<P>Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic
nature. (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec) jb</P>
<P>If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue. (Peter Ustinov) jb</P>
<P>It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
(Voltaire) js</P>
<P>Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six
months. (Oscar Wilde) ab</P>
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<P><A name=fear>Fear</A></P>
<P>If you think too much and fail to take action, fear makes its home within you.
(Anonymous) lc</P>
<P>Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to
try. (Mary Kay Ash) sl</P>
<P>The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them?
Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out? (Margaret Atwood) sj</P>
<P>To the timid soul, nothing is possible. (John Bach) sl</P>
<P>It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to
fear. (Francis Bacon) ba</P>
<P>There is no delight the equal of dread. (Clive Barker) bcm</P>
<P>Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest
summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should
have. (Louis E. Boone) bcm</P>
<P>I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. (Charlie
Brown) js</P>
<P>One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation. (Elias Canetti) la</P>
<P>Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. (Miguel de Cervantes) nb</P>
<P>And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it
physical expression, go out and explore. If you are a brave man you will do
nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to
prove their bravery. (Apsley Cherry-Garrard) sb</P>
<P>The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do. (Sequichie Comingdeer) sl</P>
<P>We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. (Francois
de La Rochefoucauld) js</P>
<P>Of course, I don't go onto the studio with the idea of 'saying' something
that's ludicrous. What I do is face the blank canvas, which is terrifying. (Richard
Diebenkorn) jb</P>
<P>Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most. (Fyodor
Dostoevski) sj</P>
<P>The more we try new things, the more we realize what we are capable of and the
less we fear fear. (Michael Duncan) ba</P>
<P>He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) sl</P>
<P>Sufficient to today are the duties of today. Don't waste life in doubts and
fears; spend yourself on the work before you; well assured that the right
performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or
ages that follow it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) dr</P>
<P>The two terrors that discourage originality and creative living are fear of
public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
bcm</P>
<P>You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing. (Lewis
Freedman) bcm</P>
<P>There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people. (Robert Frost) ab</P>
<P>Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers that,
in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer. (Jose Ortega y
Gasset) sh</P>
<P>Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm
in two small jumps. (David Lloyd George) lc</P>
<P>I come into the studio very fearfully. I creep in to see what happened the night
before. And the feeling is one of, "My God, did I do that?" (Philip Guston) jb</P>
<P>Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you
will see how low it was. (Dag Hammarskjold) js</P>
<P>Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock... (Evan
Harris) lp</P>
<P>I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when
it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone
there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Frank Herbert) js</P>
<P>There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. (Alfred
Hitchcock) js</P>
<P>The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
(Eric Hoffer) js</P>
<P>These then are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is
worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (William James) lc</P>
<P>I have accepted fear as a part of life specifically the fear of change... I
have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back. (Erica Jong)
vw</P>
<P>Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom. (Ilya Kabakov)
df</P>
<P>We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. (John F.
Kennedy) js</P>
<P>Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has
returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a
few steps, but really climb them... (Paul Klee) gr</P>
<P>There is no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the
end from the beginning. (E. J. Klemme) js</P>
<P>An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. (Dr. Edwin Land)
pd</P>
<P>I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be,
I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side.
(Audre Lorde) js</P>
<P>When I dare to be powerful... to use my strength in the service of my Vision,
then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. (Audre Lorde) bcm</P>
<P>It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major
contributory factor to great paintings. (David Louis) dkl</P>
<P>A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling
in the dark computer and the locked studio. (Eric Maisel) ka</P>
<P>We are literally in the water... and the house can only be reached by boat; we
had to take refuge on the first floor but the water is still rising and where will
all this end? It's quite frightening... Painting is out of the question... (Claude
Monet) ba</P>
<P>Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the
fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. (Jim Morrison) js</P>
<P>Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have. (Edvard
Munch) tm</P>
<P>To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. (Joseph Chilton
Pearce) sj</P>
<P>Fear is the enemy of art. But it's a misfortune to be in complete control and a
gift to feel slightly lost. (Melanie Peter) ab</P>
<P>Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be
it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses
that terror, he's through. (Robert Rauschenberg) jb</P>
<P>Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else
is more important than fear. (Ambrose Redmoon) js</P>
<P>Every day do something that frightens you. (Eleanor Roosevelt) ph</P>
<P>Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be
notorious. (Rumi) nb</P>
<P>The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. (Albert Pinkham Ryder)
jb</P>
<P>Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails
is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in
life's most important battle he defeated the fear of trying. (Robert H. Schuller)
sl</P>
<P>You have to learn how to be in scary areas, make those comfortable, then go to
the next scary area and make it comfortable... (Linda Seger) de</P>
<P>To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and
thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we
can. (Sydney Smith) sl</P>
<P>For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good
product of fear. (John Steinbeck) ba</P>
<P>A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is
set before him with a single mind. (Robert Louis Stevenson) sl</P>
<P>Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or
misfortune at their own pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. (Robert Louis
Stevenson) sj</P>
<P>Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back. (Publilius Syrus) sl</P>
<P>Fear makes us feel small and uncertain, uncomfortable and separate. Fearlessness
expands and creates possibilities. (Helena Tiainen) ka</P>
<P>The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have
overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain. (Brian Tracy) hh</P>
<P>To overcome fear, act as if it were impossible to fail, and it shall be. (Brian
Tracy) hh</P>
<P>Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. (Mark
Twain) sh</P>
<P>We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true,
and serious. (Brenda Ueland) sl</P>
<P>Oh god, I love a deadline, it's like laying face up on a guillotine waiting for
gravity... the thrill of it all! (Will VanDorin) pd</P>
<P>It is what we fear that happens to us. (Oscar Wilde) ba</P>
<P>Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate / Our deepest fear is that we are
powerful beyond measure / It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens
us. (Marianne Williamson) mym</P>
<P>It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! (Emiliano Zapata)
sl</P>
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<P><A name=finishing>Finishing</A></P>
<P>I don't want to sign the work until it looks like it has been lived on, until I
have violated the open white space and created something that can become
independent of me and fend for itself. (Dion Archibald) ba</P>
<P>Art completes what nature cannot bring to a finish. (Aristotle) gr</P>
<P>Put your energy into 'finishing' and you're missing your next great painting.
(Jacqueline Baldini) ba</P>
<P>The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that
no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it impossible for a
work to be finished. This is why the content of any work is not the nature of the
figure or head portrayed but the incomplete history of him staring at it. (John
Berger) tjh</P>
<P>To the impressionist, the work was finished, no matter how casual the execution,
when the idea was completely realized on the canvas. (Richard J. Boyle) jb</P>
<P>The painting is finished when the idea has disappeared. (Georges Braque) df</P>
<P>The painting is always finished before the artist thinks it is. (Harley Brown)
ab</P>
<P>At the end of the day, the only thing that counts is your insight, your
reaction, and the way you convey your feeling towards the subject. (Alvaro
Castagnet) ab</P>
<P>I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of
fools... I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more
knowing. (Paul Cezanne) ab</P>
<P>When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. (Winston Churchill)
bcm</P>
<P>If I set myself a task, be it ever so trifling, I shall see it through. How else
shall I have confidence in myself to do important things? (George S. Clason) sl</P>
<P>One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
(Marie Curie) ab</P>
<P>A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most
finished product. (Eugene Delacroix) df</P>
<P>Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he
chooses. (Eugene Delacroix) df</P>
<P>One always has to spoil a picture a little bit in order to finish it. (Eugene
Delacroix) df</P>
<P>I really injoy the finishing part of the painting process. It's like preforming
the Beethoven Sonata when all the hard slog has been done to make it a possibility.
(Leoni Duff) ba</P>
<P>Once a work is finished, I forget about being a composer and approach it as a
pianist. (Vivian Fine) ba</P>
<P>All large tasks are completed in a series of starts. (Neil Fiore) ka</P>
<P>It can be difficult to assess when a painting is complete. For this reason, I
often set aside the painting to prevent overworking it. When I am unsure, I ask
myself if doing more would add or take away from the purpose of the painting. (Mary
French) ba</P>
<P>Focus and momentum shorten the path to the finish line. (Connie Frey) ba</P>
<P>Do not finish your work too much. An impression is not sufficiently durable for
its first freshness to survive a belated search for infinite detail... (Paul
Gauguin) gr</P>
<P>That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible
it becomes to finish it. (Alberto Giacometti) df</P>
<P>A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more
a crime. (Ted Godwin) sj</P>
<P>The important thing is not what the author, or any artist, had in mind to begin
with but at what point he decided to stop. (D. W. Harding) ab</P>
<P>Don't ever set yourself a stopping place, because maybe that is just the
beginning. (John Held-Jr.) df</P>
<P>My pictures really finish themselves. (Howard Hodgkin) mb</P>
<P>...letting well enough alone which is the rule for grown artists only.
(Winslow Homer) jb</P>
<P>Dry brush details are finishing touches that will make the painting come
together. A contrasting light pigment works best in the sunlit areas. (William
Hook) ka</P>
<P>Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. (Joseph Joubert) js</P>
<P>The best part is: I'm never finished! There are always new angles, new shadows,
new lights... (Paula Bachtiger Kling) ab</P>
<P>There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the
beginning. (Louis L'Amour) bcm</P>
<P>When I'm finished, I always wonder what would have happened had I made different
decisions along the way. (Brent R. Laycock) ab</P>
<P>Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. (Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow) js</P>
<P>When a thing is not done, continuing to work is the strength; but when it is
done, the strength lies in stopping. (Eric Maisel) ab</P>
<P>I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in
place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its
boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a
boat. (John Marin) ka</P>
<P>Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting,
but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working
on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind. (Henri Matisse) df</P>
<P>It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that
you finished it. (Jeff Melvoin) js</P>
<P>If I see an ending, I can work backwards. (Arthur Miller) df</P>
<P>It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that
strength; it is the only strength I have. (Claude Monet) rg</P>
<P>While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it
is much harder to do than one might suppose... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.
(Claude Monet) sa</P>
<P>I'm never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the
impossible and the more powerless I feel. (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>I'm going to offer fifty francs to my landlord to see if I can have the oak
tree's leaves removed... Isn't it the final straw to be finishing a winter
landscape at this time of year... (Claude Monet) ba</P>
<P>The painterly painters labor under a disadvantage, since their idea of finish is
not that of the general public. (Charles Movalli) rg</P>
<P>As a painting nears completion, I sometimes wonder when to stop... the best clue
for me is when I start painting the next one in my head. (Kathryn Mullaney) ba</P>
<P>Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more but then
maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far. (Bruce
Nauman) rg</P>
<P>A painting is like the fa ade of a house... and you're like a janitor who goes
around systematically trying to close all the windows and doors but when you get
to the top floor to close the last window, a wind blows open the one on the first
landing. You rush down and close that one, and then one on the middle floor blows
open and you rush to close that. But when you've closed all the entries to the
house, then the painting is closed not that it's finished, it's just that you
can't enter it any longer. (Graham Nickson) df</P>
<P>To know when to stop is of the same importance as to know when to begin. To
continue merely automatically is as much a sin against the creative spirit as to
start work without true inspiration. (Karl Nierendorf) df</P>
<P>Now that it is framed, we can appreciate it. (W. Parks) df</P>
<P>When I paint a picture, there comes a moment when the signs and figures on it
come alive and begin their own secret, independent life. Spying on their games, one
starts to have a different attitude toward them and toward what remains to be done.
(Yuril Petruk) df</P>
<P>While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous
elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an
unfinished state is even more reprehensible. (Walter J. Phillips) gr</P>
<P>Woe to you the day it is said that you are finished! To finish a work? To finish
a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to
rid it of its soul to give it its final blow; the most unfortunate one for the
painter as well as for the picture. (Pablo Picasso) jb</P>
<P>The foreground is just an access or entry. The less you do to a foreground, the
better. (George Post) df</P>
<P>All's well that ends well. (proverb) ba</P>
<P>A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished. (Rembrandt) df</P>
<P>I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it. (Pierre-
Auguste Renoir) ab</P>
<P>However minutely labored the picture may be in the detail, the whole will have a
false and even an unfinished appearance, at whatever distance, or in whatever light
it can be shown. (Sir Joshua Reynolds) gr</P>
<P>I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a
trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle. (Charles Sheeler)
df</P>
<P>The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates
most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an
effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's
begun. (Burton Silverman) ba</P>
<P>In painting, the gravest immorality is to try to finish what isn't well begun.
But a picture that is well begun may be left off at any point. Look at Cezanne's
water colours! (Sir Matthew Smith) gr</P>
<P>If you've worked over all of your drawing, it should finish itself often when
you least expect it. (Stan Smith) ka</P>
<P>There is no artist's studio, even a mediocre one, in which a study may not be
found superior to his finished works. (Alfred Stevens) df</P>
<P>Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. (Igor Stravinsky) ab</P>
<P>I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's
something so dead about a finished painting. (John Updike) df</P>
<P>Stop when finished. (Frank Webb) df</P>
<P>I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the
painting is finished. (Neil Welliver) df</P>
<P>The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow suggests no effort
and is finished from its beginning. (James Abbot McNeill Whistler) rg</P>
<P>Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are
thoroughly familiar. (Oscar Wilde) gr</P>
<P>One of Cezanne's unfinished paintings... appears to be a completed work even
though only a few strokes of paint have been put down. My methods are similar... I
expect each of my paintings to appear whole in every stage. (Christopher Willard)
df</P>
<P>I believe an artist's duty is to make a painting so complete that when it's
framed and put on a wall it seems to say, 'I'm all there is. There is no more.'
(Robert E. Wood) df</P>
<P>Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's
actual thoughts are left visible. (Pliny the Younger) rg</P>
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<P><A name=flexibility>Flexibility</A></P>
<P>The more flexible the arrangement [working from home] the more likely one ends
up twisted like a pretzel. (Adam) ba</P>
<P>If there is something wonderful happening in the paint, stay open to that and
work with it rather than against it. Stay flexible to the adventure of
creativity... (Donna Baspaly) ka</P>
<P>The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd
guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it. (Jeremy
Campbell) js</P>
<P>To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility. (Mason Cooley) js</P>
<P>The creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his
thinking. (A. J. Cropley) ba</P>
<P>Exaggeration and modification are the undisputed prerogative of the creative
artist. (Charles Sargeant Jagger) jb</P>
<P>A large portion of success is derived from flexibility. It is all very well to
have principles, rules of behavior concerning right and wrong. But it is quite as
essential to know when to forget as when to use them. (Alice Foote MacDougall)
js</P>
<P>Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we
are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives. (Eric Maisel) ab</P>
<P>The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they
are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other
times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent
in striving to reach their goals. (Roger von Oech) js</P>
<P>It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can
be born. (Odilon Redon) jb</P>
<P>If I can get the big shapes manipulated into a strong pattern, there is
tremendous flexibility in interpreting the details. This flexibility allows me to
paint intuitively and emotionally... (Eric Wiegardt) gr</P>
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<P><A name=flow>Flow</A></P>
<P>Developing a composition is a continuous flow of ideas, where the artist
combines, adds, reduces, adapts and discards the various elements in an unending
discovery of new possibilities. (Alessandra Bitelli) ka</P>
<P>I'm either hurtling down the track not noticing the passing countryside, or
standing on the platform having missed the train... The two extremes seem to
smoothly flow into each other... (Sarah Cannell) jb</P>
<P>Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not "wasting time." (Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi) jb</P>
<P>Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls
away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the
previous one, like playing jazz. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) jb</P>
<P>Your flow is as tangible and real as any locomotive, and just as powerful.
(Robert Genn) jb</P>
<P>The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does
not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of
your art. (Robert Genn) jb</P>
<P>If I complete my last painting without starting another one first, the flow
stops. (Brad Greek) jb</P>
<P>Flow is simply the result of shifting from left brain to right brain work.
(Steve Hovland) ba</P>
<P>All artists know that those paintings that are created freely and effortlessly
are the best let it flow ! (Dianne Middleton) ab</P>
<P>In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
(Patanjali) sg</P>
<P>"Being in the flow" is definitely worth striving for. I know when I'm there. I'm
tapped into something that is far beyond my ability. (Aleta Pippin) ab</P>
<P>Specialization is an acceleration of flow. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) jb</P>
<P>To somehow let loose the bonds of everyday life, to close off the voices and let
the creative spirit flow is the most rewarding side of creativity in any form. (Jo
Scott-B) ab</P>
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<P><A name=form>Form</A></P>
<P>Form is an extension of content. (Anonymous) df</P>
<P>Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the
representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable. (Rudolf Arnheim) df</P>
<P>Lines as edges kill a sense of form. (Paul Bandford) df</P>
<P>I would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of
ultimate reality. (Clive Bell) jb</P>
<P>Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. (George Bellows) bcm</P>
<P>The work produced is a thing among things, able to be experienced and described
as a sum of qualities. But from time to time it can face the receptive beholder in
its whole embodied form. (Martin Buber) df</P>
<P>The simplest forms in the universe are the sphere and the circle. I represent
them by disks and then I vary them... spheres of different sizes, densities,
colours and volumes, floating in space, traversing clouds, sprays of water,
currents of air, viscosities and odours of the greatest variety and disparity.
(Alexander Calder) df</P>
<P>The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally
corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional
life. (Graham Collier) df</P>
<P>Drawing is your understanding of form. (Edgar Degas) df</P>
<P>One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without
form. (Gustave Flaubert) bcm</P>
<P>It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of
form boiled down to so little. (Alberto Giacometti) jb</P>
<P>The world seems to be made up of a never-ending series of overlapping forms.
There always seems to be something in back of something else. (Donald Graham)
df</P>
<P>If a form isn't right, if it's erased, the correction has meaning. It's the
process of the mind, moving and making. The form didn't drop from outer space.
(Elliott Green) df</P>
<P>There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only
appear when you are far away. (Robert Henri) am</P>
<P>The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but
rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. (Wassily Kandinsky) df</P>
<P>I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and
white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can be. I want the
masses to perform. When I work with forms and colors, I get the edge... (Ellsworth
Kelly) df</P>
<P>Work from the pithy eye out, swimming in language sea. Something that you feel
will find a form. (Jack Kerouac) df</P>
<P>The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way
itself. (Paul Klee) df</P>
<P>A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images
metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote
or intangible ideas. (Suzanne Langer) df</P>
<P>My aim is for ripeness of form. I want to make my forms so full, so juicy that
one could add nothing more to them. (Henri Laurens) gr</P>
<P>Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. (Roy Lichtenstein) tm</P>
<P>Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form. (Mary Beth
McKenzie) ka</P>
<P>If you give a child something very complex to paint, such as a bouquet of
flowers or a natural landscape, if he is very good, eventually he will get back
like Cezanne to the essential forms of what he sees. (Robert Motherwell) df</P>
<P>As forms, architectural elements are often complex and invariably interesting
foils for light and shadow. (Michael Nevin) ka</P>
<P>The secret of many of my deformations which many people do not understand is
that there is an interaction, an intereffect between the lines in a painting: one
line attracts the other and at the point of maximum attraction the lines curve in
toward the attracting point and form is altered. (Pablo Picasso) js</P>
<P>From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only
forms which are more or less convincing lies. (Pablo Picasso) jb</P>
<P>Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our
own, we see it under multiple forms. (Marcel Proust) df</P>
<P>There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is
art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through. (Dan Rice)
tm</P>
<P>Draw with the brush. Carve the form. Don't be carried away by subtleties of
modeling and nice pigmentation at the expense of losing the form. (John Sloan)
gr</P>
<P>I have to be clear of the form before I can really work out my problems there in
terms of composition. (Deon Venter) ba</P>
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<P><A name=freedom>Freedom</A></P>
<P>What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to
wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical
freedom? (Edward Abbey) bcm</P>
<P>When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking, I cannot
choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope
it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and
speak no more. [2nd U.S. president] (John Adams) js</P>
<P>The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from
care and worry. (James Truslow Adams) js</P>
<P>The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings. (Henri-Frederic
Amiel) ka</P>
<P>Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own
prison. (Sir Edwin Arnold) vw</P>
<P>Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.
(Richard Avedon) ab</P>
<P>Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation.
But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle...
(Balthus) df</P>
<P>Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. (Aneurin Bevan) js</P>
<P>Free time is a necessity if you are to exist as an artist. (Eleanor Blair)
ba</P>
<P>The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. (Leon
Blum) js</P>
<P>The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding. (Louis D. Brandeis) lp</P>
<P>You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of
yourself. (Edie Brickell) ka</P>
<P>Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed. (Edmund Burke) ba</P>
<P>Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, streams like the thunderstorm
against the wind. (Lord Byron) js</P>
<P>Writing just for the hell of it is heaven. (Julia Cameron) sl</P>
<P>Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. (Albert
Camus) em</P>
<P>The freedom is in the paint; one must become the paint, so to speak, feeling it
flow through the end of the brush. (Philip J. Carroll) rg</P>
<P>Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. (Albert Camus) ba</P>
<P>I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not
a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more. (Anton Chekhov) ka</P>
<P>The work of art is a scream of freedom. (Christo) ka</P>
<P>Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that
work does what he wants to do. (R. G. Collingwood) gr</P>
<P>When I am dead, let it be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church,
to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any regime except the regime of
liberty.' (Gustave Courbet) jb</P>
<P>The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free,
it will have carried out its duty. (Gustave Courbet) sr</P>
<P>Imagine, if you will, the author standing on a high rooftop hurling books into
the void yelling, "Fly! Be free!" (Curtis Craddock) pd</P>
<P>For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? (Dante)
bcm</P>
<P>We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature,
a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from
all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's
instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality. (Maurice
Denis) wn</P>
<P>No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a
gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy
it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason. (Denis Diderot) js</P>
<P>My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have
assigned myself for each one of my undertakings. (Richard Diebenkorn) ph</P>
<P>Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist / Before they're allowed to be
free? (Bob Dylan) nb</P>
<P>All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these
aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of
mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. (Albert
Einstein) sl</P>
<P>Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who
can labor in freedom. (Albert Einstein) lp</P>
<P>When I discover who I am, I'll be free. (Ralph Ellison) ab</P>
<P>Only the educated are free. (Epictetus) js</P>
<P>No man is free who is not master of himself. (Epictetus) js</P>
<P>I am chaos. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy
anarchy. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free. (the goddess Eris) dr</P>
<P>Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom
for anybody. (Suzanne La Follette) vw</P>
<P>Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. (Alan Dean Foster) js</P>
<P>This is the last of the human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given
set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. (Victor Frankl) ba</P>
<P>People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security,
deserve neither freedom nor security. (Benjamin Franklin) em</P>
<P>Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
(Mahatma Gandhi) sh</P>
<P>All the joys animal and human of a free life are mine. I have escaped
everything that is artificial, conventional, customary. (Paul Gauguin) jb</P>
<P>To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do
with one's freedom. (Andre Gide) dr</P>
<P>Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic
dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of
the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? (Nadine Gordimer) sl</P>
<P>The first and most important thing is to remain free, free in each line you
undertake, in your ideas and in your political action, in your moral conduct. The
artist especially must remain free from all outer restraints. (Hans Hartung) df</P>
<P>Unless a man had the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome
burden. (Eric Hoffer) bcm</P>
<P>Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that,
and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence. (Horace)
ba</P>
<P>Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel
as a visitor. (Horace) ba</P>
<P>When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
(Charles Evans Hughes) js</P>
<P>A forest bird never wants a cage. (Henrik Ibsen) jb</P>
<P>You are free and that is why you are lost. (Franz Kafka) ba</P>
<P>There is no must in art because art is free. (Wassily Kandinsky) sj</P>
<P>Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of
a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely
select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society
severs the root of art. (John F. Kennedy) js</P>
<P>People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use. (Kierkegaard) js</P>
<P>Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. (Kris Kristofferson)
ba</P>
<P>Many terrible things are done in order to restrict the margin of liberty and
freedom of our citizens... I love liberty, and loving liberty, I know that the
price of it is vigilance. (Laurier Lapierre) ba</P>
<P>Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more
impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and
happy, as a song in the bath. (Mervyn Levy) sr</P>
<P>Freedom is always freedom for the one who thinks differently. (Rosa Luxemburg)
bcm</P>
<P>As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the
same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others. (Nelson Mandela) jqb</P>
<P>An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, a prisoner of manner, a
prisoner of reputation, or a prisoner of success. (Henri Matisse) rg</P>
<P>When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In
everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously
free... (Henri Matisse) sr</P>
<P>Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our
capacity to mold ourselves. (Rollo May) js</P>
<P>The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself
a nuisance to other people. (John Stuart Mill) ba</P>
<P>None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but
licence. (John Milton) ba</P>
<P>Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks
full of nature's darlings. (John Muir) ae</P>
<P>Painting is the one area to which you can really give your body. It's the
ability to get a re-creation of oneself through painting that gives people the
feeling that they are not trapped within their skins. (Hugh O'Donnell) df</P>
<P>It was all so far away... there was quiet and an untouched feel to the country
and I could work as I pleased. (Georgia O'Keeffe) ab</P>
<P>Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George
Orwell) ba</P>
<P>Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches. (P. K.
Page) df</P>
<P>Liberty is the secret to creativity. (Pierre Parisien) ba</P>
<P>Now: heaven knows, anything goes. (Cole Porter) ba</P>
<P>In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the
unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous
mistakes and glorious celebrations. (Ronald Reagan) sl</P>
<P>Painting depends on freedom. When you're feeling completely free, you can
create, and this power to create is, in turn, the greatest freedom of all. (George
Rodrigue) js</P>
<P>Beware of those who seek to take care of you lest your caretakers become your
jailers. (Jim Rohn) hh</P>
<P>Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) ba</P>
<P>All alive beings will eventually choose freedom. (Yaroslaw Rozputnyak) ab</P>
<P>No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. (John
Ruskin) ba</P>
<P>There is no liberation without labor... and there is no freedom which is free.
(The Siri Singh Sahib) vw</P>
<P>Man is condemned to be free. (Jean-Paul Sartre) ba</P>
<P>To Confine the Artist is a Crime, It Means Murdering Unborn Life. [Title of
earliest self-portrait] (Egon Schiele) jb</P>
<P>I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is
lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
(William Scott) df</P>
<P>Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the
possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any
authority literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social, and even political.
(Ignazio Silone) em</P>
<P>You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you
haven't go it yourself. (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) ba</P>
<P>What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they
don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go
down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. (Thomas Sowell) lp</P>
<P>A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. (Gloria Steinem) em</P>
<P>My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
(Adlai Stevenson) ba</P>
<P>Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. (Twyla Tharp) lc</P>
<P>Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than
housed in them. (Henry David Thoreau) em</P>
<P>Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is
the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences. (Mao Tse-Tung)
ba</P>
<P>It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never
to practice either of them. (Mark Twain) ba</P>
<P>Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be
free is not given equally to all men and all nations. (Paul Valery) ba</P>
<P>To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of
those extremes that fence all effort in. (Mark Van Doren) js</P>
<P>Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. (Voltaire) js</P>
<P>I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so
vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his side when absurd men have
condemned him for these same truths. [referring to Helvetius's De L'Esprit which
was publicly burned in 1758] (Voltaire) ba</P>
<P>Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living
in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? (Kurt Vonnegut-Jr.) sh</P>
<P>The greatest enemy of art is the absence of Limitation. (Orson Welles) nb</P>
<P>If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free however free one
can be on this planet. (Theodore White) js</P>
<P>As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates
others. (Marianne Williamson) mym</P>
<P>To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. (Virginia Woolf) ba</P>
<P>Me this unchartered freedom tires; / I feel the weight of chance-desires: / My
hopes no more must change their name, / I long for a repose that ever is the same.
(William Wordsworth) ba</P>
<P>How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is
free down to its root, and in that freedom bold. (William Wordsworth) js</P>
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