I once had a drinking contest with an artist on his yacht... It amused him as I took shot after shot, and I realized that this was the reason he'd invited us, his amusement. Looking back, I thought he didn't expect we'd have anything to say, that my ...
No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. [...] To drive children into labour is to slaughter artists, to scour deathly all wonder, the flickering dart of imagination eager as finches flitting from branch to branch –...
We walked the length of Jackson Square, stopping to look at the work of a couple of artists who'd set up their sidewalk shops for the day. "Look." Eugenie stopped in front of an acrylic painting of a mustached man with curly dark hair, hooded eyes, a...
What was after the universe? Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began? It could not be a wall; but there could be a thin thin line there all round everything. It was very big to think ...
Hitherto I had been convinced that my friend wanted to become an artist, a painter, or perhaps an architect. Now this was no longer the case. Now he aspired to something higher, which I could not yet fully grasp. It rather surprised me, as I thought ...
Know Thyself, a wise old Greek once said. Know Thyself. Now what does this mean, boys and girls? It means, be what you are. Don't try to be Sally or Johnny or Fred next door; be yourself. God doesn't want a tree to be a waterfall, or a flower to be a...
That kind of thinking [that writers must alleviate their guilt for leading a creative life] is based on the idea that the creative life is somehow self-indulgent. Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nou...
Snow-melt in the stream: Mama Nature turning winter's storms into nourishment for the soil, fecundity, and beauty. This is what I must now learn to do with the stormy weather I've been passing through: turn it into beauty, turn it into art, so new li...
On their deathbed men will speak true, they say.
What if all religiouns were stories, and all stories were true?
Find your purpose and you'll discover true joy.
...try to remember that dreams do come true, but they don't come easily.
...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...
Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.
BubbaHarold - "One of the most unique takes on true crime ever.
When I fall in love, I manifest my true soul.
Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.
It's true: I married my college sweetheart. We were so lucky to find each other at such a young age.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
