#tis

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#break #hearts #including #lessons #life

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. ↗

— Shania Twain

#fun #fun thing #i #i do #most

I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising. ↗

— Benjamin Henry Day

#affiliation #except #i #partisan #promised

Maybe I'm an elitist, but I don't feel like I am. ↗

— Kim Deal

#elitist #feel #i #i am #like

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#artist #artists #best #educator #evolutions

A great artist is never poor. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#great #never #poor

Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#films #i #i can #kind #know

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#ideals #nation #tell #you

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools. ↗

— Thomas Eakins

#big #eye #her #keeps #nature

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#being #defeating #down #get #i