Well Trained Pencil

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

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

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

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

Mathematics is the cheapest science. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and a paper. - George Polya

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

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

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

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

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

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

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

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