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David Hockney: It is very...

David Hockney: It is very...

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his...

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M C Escher: We adore chaos...

M C Escher: We adore chaos...

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Source:
-- M C Escher, (Jun 17...

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Ansel Adams: The only things...

Ansel Adams: The only things...

The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human...

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Ansel Adams: You don't take...

Ansel Adams: You don't take...

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Source: In The New York Public Library...

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Robert Henri: The object isn't...

Robert Henri: The object isn't...

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art...

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Benito Mussolini: Fascism, the more...

Benito Mussolini: Fascism, the more...

Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political...

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Earl Nightingale: You become what...

Earl Nightingale: You become what...

You become what you think about.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Bertolt Brecht: If there are...

Bertolt Brecht: If there are...

If there are obstacles, the shortest line between two points may be a crooked line.

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J B Priestley: If there is...

J B Priestley: If there is...

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you...

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Edward Albee: I'm not suggesting...

Edward Albee: I'm not suggesting...

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say - it leaves me...

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Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Robert Penn Warren: Most writers are...

Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . . not simply working from the given, but toward the...

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Shirley Jackson: It is only...

Shirley Jackson: It is only...

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of...

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Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

Peter De Vries: I was thinking...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer...

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Peter De Vries: You can make...

Peter De Vries: You can make...

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the...

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V S Naipaul: To read a...

V S Naipaul: To read a...

To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like...

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Richard Bach: Argue your limitations...

Richard Bach: Argue your limitations...

Argue your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

Source:
-- Richard...

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Harper Lee: Until I feared...

Harper Lee: Until I feared...

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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Louis Auchincloss: Only little boys...

Louis Auchincloss: Only little boys...

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

Salman Rushdie: The novel does...

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyse the...

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Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

Salman Rushdie: The only privilege...

The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the privilege of...

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