Well Trained Pencil

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

What an artist the world is losing in me. - Nero

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? - George Carlin

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. - Charles Barkley

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If God had intended us to fly, He would never have given us railways. - Michael Flanders

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? - Valentina Tereshkova

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. - David Lee Roth

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. - Eleanor R. Belmont

The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. - G K Chesterton

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

I have to tell them that last night was a shameful train wreck filled with blind cuddly puppies. - Charlie Sheen

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

All my life I've wanted, just once, to say something clever without losing my train of thought. - Robert Breault

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. - Jon Bon Jovi

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward. - Ernest Hemingway

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track ... an inch between a wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. - Henry Ward Beecher

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds. - Plato

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle