A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
by Hedy Lamarr
A picture is a poem without words.
by Horace
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
by Henry Miller
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
by Gustave Flaubert
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
by Henry Ward Beecher
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
"Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost."
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
by Pablo Picasso
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. -Harry Golden
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. -Henry J. Kaiser
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. -Richard Bach
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still? -J. Paul Getty
All things are difficult before they are easy. -Thomas Fuller
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. -Peter F. Drucker
We work to become, not to acquire. -Elbert Hubbard
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. -Anne Frank
The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today. -Elbert Hubbard
Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work. -David Sarnoff
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’ -Don Marquis
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. -John Dewey
Know your limitations and be content with them. Too much ambition results in promotion to a job you can’t do. -David Brent
The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit. -Dwight Morrow
If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work. -Ogden Nash
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measures with money, and that is sincerity and integrity. -Donald A. Adams
Coming together is the beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. -Henry Ford
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. -Theodore Roosevelt
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. -George Sand
The harder I work, the luckier I get. -Samuel Goldwyn
Goals are dreams with deadlines. -Diana Scharf Hunt
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? -Sydney J. Harris
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. -George MacDonald
How glorious it is and also how painful to be an exception. -Alfred de Musset
Tap into people’s dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won’t lift a finger. -Thomas Friedman
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like. -Mill Smith
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. -Wayne Dyer
The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude. -Robert H. Schuller
All saints have past and all sinners have a future. -Anton Chekhov
Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry by day, and too sleepy to worry at night.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. -Bernard Meltzer
The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. –Ed McBain
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough. -Frank Crane
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. -H.W. Byles
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. -Bernard de Fontenelle
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. -William R. Inge
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
by Malayan Proverb
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
by David Thomas
Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
by James Russell Lowell
I would thank you from the bottom of my heart, but for you my heart has no bottom.
by Author Unknown
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
by Oscar Wilde
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
by Jean Baptiste Massieu,
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Author Unknown
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
by Mark Twain
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
by Thornton Wilder
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
by Cicero
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
by Oprah Winfrey
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Author Unknown
Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. Perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure n a particular direction. When one door closes, another always opens.
Author Unknown
Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting.
Author Unknown
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
by Brian Tracy
Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
by Christiane Northrup
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
by Eileen Caddy
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
by Epictetus
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
by Meister Eckhardt
If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.
Author Unknown
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
by Rabbi Harold Kushner
If you haven’t all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don’t have that you wouldn’t want.
Author Unknown
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is impossible to feel grateful and depressed in the same moment.
by Naomi Williams
It isn't what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.
Author Unknown
People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.
by Richard Carlson
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
by Wallace D. Wattles
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
by Henry Ward Beecher
The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.
by Wallace D. Wattles
There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.
Author Unknown
