Well Trained Pencil

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. - Rod Stewart

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

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

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

My train of thought derailed. There were no survivors. - Unknown

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

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

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

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

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

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

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! - Mariah Carey

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

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

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

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

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

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight. - Kalpana Chawla

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

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump. - Andrew Vachss

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

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

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer. - Corrie Ten Boom

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

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