“You can either buy clothes or buy pictures,” she said. “It’s that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.”
Ernest Hemingway
“If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Hunger is healthy and the pictures do look better when you are hungry.”
— Ernest Hemingway Disputed“In all design, art lies in making your object prominent, but there is a prior art in choosing objects that are prominent.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The whole scene, the empty beach, the green and blue sea, the naked girl with the strands of fair hair, reminded Bond of something. He searched his mind. Yes, she was Botticelli’s Venus, seen from behind.”
— Ian Fleming Primary source“There’s actually very little distinction between an artist and a scientist or engineer of the highest calibre.”
— Steve Jobs Primary source“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.”
— Leonardo da Vinci DisputedSimplicity Design Engineering Hunger Values