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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. - Tom Hodgkinson

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

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

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 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