QUOTES

I LOVE QUOTES! Here's some quotes I can identify with.
Just a "snippit" into my mind: However dark they may be.

“It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.”
Orison Swett Marden quotes

“No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.”
Ludwig van Beethoven quotes (German Composer the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic era. 1770-1827)

“Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes (Russian moral Thinker, Novelist and Philosopher, notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics. 1828-1910)

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

“The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.
Henri Matisse quotes (Artist regarded as the most important French Painter and Artist of the 20th century, 1869-1954)

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
Erica Jong quotes (American writer and feminist, 1942)

“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.”
Vincent van Gogh quotes (Dutch Painter, one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists, 1853-1890)

“That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.”
Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”
St. Thomas Aquinas quotes (Scholastic philosopher and theologian, 1225-1274)

“Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”
Oscar Levant quotes (American Actor, Pianist and Composer. 1906-1972)

“I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.”
Oscar Levant quotes (American Actor, Pianist and Composer. 1906-1972)

“There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
Oscar Levant quotes (American Actor, Pianist and Composer. 1906-1972)

“It’s not what your are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.”
Oscar Levant quotes (American Actor, Pianist and Composer. 1906-1972)

“hypochondria, manic depression and addictions.”
Oscar Levant quotes (American Actor, Pianist and Composer. 1906-1972)

“CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.” Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)

“Cynics are made, not born.”

“Idealist: a cynic in the making.”
Irving Layton quotes