quotes about artists

What is stronger than a mother's love? The smell of spring onions on your girl's breath. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902



The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ~Michael Novak



One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970



Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~Harriet van Horne



Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin



Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. ~Proverbs 26:27



Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir



Poker's a day to learn and a lifetime to master. ~Robert Williamson III



Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. ~Rebecca West



Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Whether he likes it or not, a man�s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden



People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. ~Neil Postman



The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness. ~Kahlil Gibran



Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference. ~Arie Pencovici



A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. ~Hazel Nicholson



An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy.... One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Character is higher than intellect. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson