William Morris Quotes
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
William Morris
Quotes to Explore
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
Frances Mayes
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
Idries Shah
A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
Jack McBrayer
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
Walter Becker
China Crisis
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
Wallace Shawn
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
Karen DeCrow
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
Larry David
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
Safra A. Catz
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher
The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.
Carrot Top
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
Haruki Murakami
I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
Taylor Swift
Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
John Roy Anderson
Yes
The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.
Freya Stark
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
William Morris
