Laurence J. Peter
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
William Shakespeare
“They do not love that do not show their love.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.”
John Dryden
“Words are but pictures of our thoughts.”
Auguste Rodin
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.”
Thomas Fuller
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
Robert Quillen
“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that…
John James Audubon
“The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.”
Earl Wilson
“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”
Luc de Clapiers
“Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
Gustave Courbet
“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist…
Wilson Mizner
“If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.”
Ovid
“All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
Pierre Bonnard
“You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“Why don’t you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.”
Gertrude Stein
“It is very easy to love alone.”
Matsuo Basho
“The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.”
Rebecca West
“Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the…
Emily Carr
“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own,…
E. M. Forster
“I’m a holy man minus the holiness.”
Mason Cooley
“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”
Hal Borland
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”
Noel Coward
“Work is much more fun than fun.”
Barbara Hepworth
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.”
Jane Austen
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Henry David Thoreau
“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
Frederick the Great
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro’ nature, moulding men.”