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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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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I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
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I’m very smart with my paper! I stopped buying things for myself a long time ago – now I just buy things for my kids or my wife.
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We can begin a discussion of artmaking by noting that from very early (as long ago as 200,000 years), humans have been naturally attracted to the extraordinary as a dimension of experience and that at some point they seem also to have been moved to make the ordinary extraordinary-that is, to shape or elaborate everyday, mundane reality and thereby transform it into something special, different from the everyday.
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My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
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It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.
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All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
