Quotes of: Blake Keyword

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Julian Fellowes

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Lionel Blue

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

Elaine Pagels

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

John James Audubon

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

Kenneth Noland

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Philip Guston

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

Benjamin Jowett

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Edvard Munch

I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

Fra Angelico

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

Richard Baxter

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

William Ellery Channing

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs ...

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.

Complete Verse

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

The Brook Kerith

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.

David Hockney

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Hedda Sterne

I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Jack Kevorkian

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Paul Cezanne

My brother and I always had jobs and worked from a young age.

Thomas Kinkade

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.

Nate Lowman

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Albert Schweitzer