Nolde Artist Quotes & Sayings

The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks. — Emil Nolde

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you. — Elizabeth Bear

The Bible teaches that you are an immortal soul. Your soul is eternal and will live forever ... the real you - the part of you that thinks, feels, dreams, aspires; the ego, the personality - will never die ... your soul will live forever in one of two places - heaven or hell. — Billy Graham

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing. — Jeremy Clarkson

The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again. — Idries Shah

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow. — Denis Waitley

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Life was a destiny waiting to be seized. — Karen Azinger

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives. — Emil Nolde

As a director and an actor, I encourage improvisation but in character and in the moment of what it is. — Billy Crystal

No matter what the reason, if you start to scream and shout, you look a fool, and you feel a fool, and you earn the disrespect of everyone. — Michael Caine

What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all. — Alan W. Watts

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is ... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. — Emil Nolde

My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience. — Patrice Leconte

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. — Emil Nolde