• Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. ~ Wynetka Ann Reynolds
  • Believe it or not, I can actually draw. ~ Jean Michel Basquiat
  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~ Robert Frost
  • When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss money. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • Every man I meet is in some way my superior. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ~ Henry Moore
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ~Theodore Dreiser, Life, Art, and America, 1917
  • Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. ~ C. S. Lewis
  • The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. ~ Samuel Coleridge
  • Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~ Samuel Coleridge
  • Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. ~ Damien Hirst
  • Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. ~ Plato
  • I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ~ Cicero
  • There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong. ~ H. L. Mencken
  • If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learne d how to live. ~ Lin Yutang
  • One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. 'Which road do I t ake?' she asked. His response was a question: 'Where do you want to go?' 'I don't know,' Alice an swered. 'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.' ~ Lewis Carroll
  • Whether you think you can or think you can't....you're absolutely right ~ Earl Nightingale
  • A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything. ~ African Proverb
  • It's so much more friendly with two. ~ Winnie the Pooh
  • The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. ~ Albert Schweitzer
  • It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. ~ Confucius
  • You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. ~ Ethel Barrymore
  • Anatomical nomenclature is an illogical, eponym-cluttered dog's breakfast of Latin and Greek. ~ Kenneth R. Thornton
  • The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. ~ Edward Young
  • Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
  • Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~ Henry Van Dyke
  • Love makes the wildest spirit tame, and the tamest spirit wild. ~ Alexis Delp
  • Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians] ~ Bible
  • When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's a relativity. ~ Albert Einstein (physicist)
  • Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. ~ Lisa Hoffman
  • The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Love is not a matter of counting the years - it's making the years count. ~ Wolfman Jack Smith
  • Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. ~ unknown
  • Originality is the art of concealing your source. ~ Thomas Edison
  • One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. ~ Bertrand Russell
  • Music stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter, a sort of nebulous mediator, like and unlike the things it mediates. Spirit that requires manifestation in time and matter that can do without space. ...We do not know what music is. ~ Heinrich Heine
  • A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ~ Kahlil Gibran
  • When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think of how to solve the problem. But, when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. ~ Buckminster Fuller
  • A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~ George Moore
  • I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso. ~ Diego Rivera
  • It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. ~ James McNeill Whistler
  • I can resist everything except temptation. ~ Oscar Wilde
  • Feelings are everywhere - be gentle. ~ J. Masai
  • Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. ~ Leo Tolstoy
  • Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~Pablo Picasso
  • Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler
  • It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. ~Kojiro Tomita
  • I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse
  • To give your care of a sheep, a large, spacious meadow is the best way to control him. ~ Buddha
  • The Four Reliances First, rely on the spirit and meaning of the teachings, not on the words; Second, rely on the teachings, not on the personality of the teacher; Third, rely on real wisdom, not superficial interpretation; And fourth, rely on the essence of your pure Wisdom Mind, not on judgemental perceptions. ~ Traditional Buddhist teaching
  • Be awake Love yourself and be awake ~ today, tomorrow, always. First establish yourself in the way, then teach others, and so defeat sorrow. To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing ~ straighten yourself You are the only master. who else? Subdue yourself, and discover your master. ~ The Dhammapada Words of the Buddha
  • An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ~Charles Horton Cooley
  • Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ Jonathan Swift
  • There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it. Henry Moore
  • Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams
  • The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~William Faulkner
  • Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ~ Kahlil Gibran