Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because…
Paul Cezanne
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.”
Albert Einstein
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.”
George Washington
“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
Amelia Earhart
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
Ernst Fischer
“I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
Samuel Beckett
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist…
Joyce Brothers
“The best proof of love is trust.”
Alphonse de Lamartine
“There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.”
Khalil Gibran
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”
Nicolas Chamfort
“Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be…
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.”
John Gay
“Shadow owes its birth to light.”
John Donne
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal…
W. H. Auden
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
Colin Powell
“Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
Amy Lowell
“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of…
Samuel Johnson
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Tennessee Williams
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
Richard M. Nixon
“If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no…
John Singer Sargent
“A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
William Blake
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
C. S. Lewis
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward…
Georges Braque
“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.”
e. e. cummings
“Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.”
Walt Whitman
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Bennett Cerf
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”
Andrew Wyeth
“It’s all in how you arrange the thing… the careful balance of the design is…