Quotes by Artists

Who sows virtue reaps honour.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.