John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.
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I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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My ideal man is dead white old and on a green sheet of paper.
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If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.
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The contest between form and content is what, is what art is about - it's art history. That's what basically everybody has ever contended with. The problem is uniquely complex in still photography.
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No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.
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The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
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Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
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You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.
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Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent!
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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
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Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.
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My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.
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[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.
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The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
