Well Trained Pencil

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves

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

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

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

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