Anton Chekhov
“To advise is not to compel.”
Baltasar Gracian
“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a…
Benjamin Disraeli
“I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.”
Joan Rivers
“I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.”
Ansel Adams
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
George Edward Moore
“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
E. M. Forster
“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men…
Louis Sullivan
“Form follows function.”
Samuel Butler
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.”
Joyce Brothers
“Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing… the secret of having it all is loving it…
John Morton
“There is no limit to the power of loving.”
Albert Camus
“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”
Lord Byron
“I love not man the less, but Nature more.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion.…
Henry David Thoreau
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking…
Walt Whitman
“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
Wilson Mizner
“If you count all your assets you always show a profit.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.”
Sarah Fielding
“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”
Francis Bacon
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
Alexandre Dumas
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.”
Federico Fellini
“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
James Russell Lowell
“The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Laurence Sterne
“Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.”
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
Valentina Tereshkova
“Hey sky, take off your hat, I’m on my way!”
Helen Rowland
“You will never win if you never begin.”
Jackson Pollock
“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”