The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
Leo Stein
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
I never had to choose a subject my subject rather chose me.
Ernest Hemingway
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
Henri Matisse
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Bernard Berenson
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Paul Gauguin
Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Experience has two things to teach; the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much.
Eugene Delacroix
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
Pierre Bonnard
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
Pablo Picasso
I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.
Henri De Toulouse Lautrec
The painting is complete when the idea is obliterated.
Georges Braque
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Max Jacob
Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.
Guillaume Apollinaire
I try to make concrete that which is abstract.
Juan Gris
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.
Joyce Stranger
The stellar universe is not so difficult of comprehension as the real actions of other people.
Marcel Proust
The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Alfred North Whitehead
Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound
You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way.
Sherwood Anderson
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.
Paul Bowles
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.