Orson Scott Card
“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.”
William Law
“Love has no errors, for all errors are the want for love.”
Adolf Loos
“Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.”
Saint Augustine
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
James Whistler
“An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.”
William Congreve
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
Bhumibol Adulyadej
“Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
Paul Cezanne
“The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.”
Sigmund Freud
“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”
Ella Maillart
“I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of…
Sol LeWitt
“When artists make art, they shouldn’t question whether it is permissible to do one thing…
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“He who is brave is free.”
Victor Hugo
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
Jean Ingelow
“Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“I start a picture and I finish it.”
James Baldwin
“People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.”
A. A. Milne
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no…
Hans Hofmann
“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.”
Stewart Udall
“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
Willem de Kooning
“Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.”
Alexander Smith
“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.”
Petrarch
“To be able to say how much love, is love but little.”
Horace
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”
Stephen Sondheim
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.”
Madame de Stael
“In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.”
Lionel Trilling
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all…
Aesop
“Adventure is worthwhile.”