Jardner Quotes & Sayings

When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume. — Oscar De La Renta

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd. — Francis Chan

Imagination is like muscle. If you don't exercise it, it shrinks. — Tim Campbell

Only stupidity excuses ignorance. That — Nalini Singh

You receive in return what you plant with your words and your deeds. — Bethanee Epifani

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. — Geoffrey Beene

Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about ... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there ... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution ... — David Hockney

I try to keep my sitters moving and talking, to make them forget they are being painted. This has nothing to do with extracting intimate secrets or confessions, but rather with establishing, in motion, an essential image of the kind that remains in memory or recurs in dreams. — Oskar Kokoschka

Don't give up hope. It took many of us twenty years or more to acquire these protective behaviors we umbrella with the word codependency. It may take as much time as that to let go of them. — Melody Beattie