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He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. Leonardo da Vinci
Day Will Year Rich He Wishes Hanged Who
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check. M. C. Escher
Me Impossible Achieve Will Think Those Only Attempt Absurd Check Go Upstairs Who Basement
Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity. Maximillian Degenerez
Peace Yourself Humanity Humble Be Humble Fears Before Out Allowing Stepping Make Limelight Subjected Gracious Inner
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. Pablo Picasso
Brainy Seen Others Could Asked Why Why Not
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. Pablo Picasso
Success Dangerous Others Oneself More Leads Than Begins Success Is Copy
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. Pablo Picasso
Positive Genius Negative Value Every Price Leads Terms Hiroshima Einstein
We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves. Paul Gauguin
Stupidity Ourselves Never Know Until Really
I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle. Peter Scott
Too Aiming Settling Danger High Rather Greater Always Than Shooting Low Believed Eagle
My style motto is pretty classic: you give off a positive energy when you wear what you're most comfortable in. Petra Collins
Positive You Positive Energy Style Energy Wear Classic Pretty Give Most Comfortable Off Motto
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. Pierre Bonnard
Art Pleasure Draw Strongly Your Paint Express
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. Roy Lichtenstein
Art Me Nothing Pretend Like
Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything. Saul Leiter
Great World Being Ignored Think Others See Simply Looked React Learned How Privilege Situations Being Anything Really Ignored Prepared Differently
The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. Shaun Tan
Wisdom History Creative Mistake Sometimes Accidents Way Draw Logic More Only Inventions Results Write Part Concept Arriving Than Any The History Of Realise Much Successful Act Creative Act Full Unintended Serendipity Original Necessary
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. Wassily Kandinsky
Soul Eyes Key Cause Harmonies Keyboard Strings Touching Color Piano Another Hand Artist Vibrations Many Plays
The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're here on this earth to unravel the mystery of this planet. The planet is asking for it. Yoko Ono
Power Earth Magic Magical Unravel Mystery Witches Wizards Very Human Race Planet Asking Human Race Here
Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars. Yoko Ono
Life Best People Life Is A Situation Stars AIDS Starving Our Worst Claim Would Crosses Bear Count Never Nobody Over Bed Lebanon Just Dying Planet Roses Many Lucky Widows
This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and woman we have created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people. Yoko Ono
Woman Reality People Frustration Men Greed Nothing Live Society Speed Ourselves Able Neurotic Driven Accelerate Force Up Being Created Image
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it. Yoko Ono
Health Family World Try Will Healthy Difficult Everything Alive Stay Something Most Most Difficult Thing Ambitious Friends Trying Going Just Want Peaceful Keep Thing Difficult Thing
The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines. Yoko Ono
Life Day My Life Meet Would Could Hours Most Deadlines Improve Thing
A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time. Yoko Ono
Life Time Day Me Book One Day At A Time Rule Rule Book One Day Through Thrown Taking Without Got Been Lot Things
I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun. Yoko Ono
Art Thought Rather Verb Than Noun
Art is too serious to be taken seriously. Ad Reinhardt
Art Seriously Too Taken Serious
The value of art is in the observer. Agnes Martin
Art Value Observer
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things. Albrecht Durer
Beauty Though Know Many Things
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. Albrecht Durer
Man Beauty Single Earth Perfect Taken Single Man Model Man Lives Endowed Figure Who Whole Lives
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Andy Warhol
Art Best Good Business Money Kind Most Making Making Money Being Working Fascinating
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