Well Trained Pencil

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

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

Appoint: The thing at the end of your pencil. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Railroads: Two backbones with a thousand ribs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Trapeze Artist: A guy who gets the hang of things. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

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

Pickup artist: An artist whose specialty is painting pictures of trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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 great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - 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

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

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

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

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