Quotes by Artists - Page 2

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Nature is usually wrong.
James McNeill Whistler
What's important is finding out what works for you.
Henry Moore
You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it could have let yourself go and dug harder.
Emily Carr
You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it but you can recognize it.
Henry Moore
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson
The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living - when you come down you may have some doubts.
Gyorgy Kepes
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
J. Ruth Gendler
Prayer is the voice of faith.
William Van Home
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
It is not our circumstances that c reate our discontent or contentment. It is us.
Vivian Greene
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
Kahlil Gibran
Cats are angels with fur.
Sark
My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.
Karl Beveridge
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.
Ivan Eyre
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James McNeill Whistler
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dalí
Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.
J. Ruth Gendler
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keeffe
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Nature is usually wrong.
James McNeill Whistler
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
Henry Moore
I think in terms of the day's resolutions not the year's.
Henry Moore
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with $10 million are no happier than people with $9 million.
Hobart Brown
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran
Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.
Ida Applebroog
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
Kahlil Gibran
There is work that is work and there is play that is play there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.
Gelett Burgess
Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.
J. Ruth Gendler
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy
I was born to be a remarkable woman it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
Marie Bashkirtseff
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
The important thing is somehow to begin.
Henry Moore
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
T. G. Appleton
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Old friends we say are best when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess
That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran
You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity you wouldn't have anything.
Alice Neel
When all that hate energy was focused on me it was transformed into a fantastic energy. It was supporting me. If you are centered and you can transform all this energy that comes in it will help you. If you believe it is going to kill you it will kill you.
Yoko Ono
I think what has this day brought me and what have I given it?
Henry Moore
Earnestness and sincereness are synonymous.
Corita Kent
There is nothing greater than enthusiasm.
Henry Moore
The British love permanence more than they love beauty.
Hugh Casson
For dhrames always go by conthraries my dear.
Samuel Lover