Quotes
Quotes about Art
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -R. G. Ingersoll.
Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ; is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your; conscience on the other. -Douglas MacArthur.
All serious daring starts from within. -Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
The cowards never startedâand the weak died along the way.
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
To wish for death is a coward's part. [Lat., Timidi est optare necem.]
Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart shall be found an ass.
How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart.
We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.
Top 10 Creative Rules of Thumb: 1. The best way to get great ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away. 2. Create ideas that are 15 minutes ahead of their time...not light years ahead. 3. Always look for a second right answer. 4. If at first you don't succeed, take a break. 5. Write down your ideas before you forget them. 6. If everyone says you are wrong, you're one step ahead. If everyone laughs at you, you're two steps ahead. 7. The answer to your problem "pre-exists." You need to ask the right question to reveal the answer. 8. When you ask a dumb question, you get a smart answer. 9. Never solve a problem from its original perspective. 10. Visualize your problem as solved before solving it.
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.
But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
