Nonartists Quotes & Sayings

Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else. — Marianne Williamson

Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out. — Elaine De Kooning

I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth — James Patterson

- Some men think because they are afraid to do.
- There is a difference between fear and caution. — George R R Martin

Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other. — Elizabeth Bowen

To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists. — Nick Meglin

Art cannot single-handedly create enthusiasm, nor does it arise from sentiments of which nonartists are devoid; it merely contributes to enthusiasm and guides us to be more conscious of feelings that we might previously have experienced only tentatively or hurriedly. — Alain De Botton

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention]. — Peter MacKay

You cannot love the Father and dislike His beloved son — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I understand I'm running against a person who is so anxious to become president, he will do whatever it takes. — George W. Bush

Like most music that affects me deeply, I would never listen to it while others were around, just as I would not pass on a book that I especially loved to another. I am embarrassed to admit this, knowing that it reveals some essential lack or selfishness in my nature, and aware that it runs contrary to the instincts of most, whose passion for something leads them to want to share it, to ignite a similar passion in others, and that without the benefit of such enthusiasm I would still be ignorant of many of the books and much of the music I love most ... But rather than an expansion, I've always felt a diminishment of my own pleasure when I've invited someone else to take part in it, a rupture in the intimacy I felt with the work, an invasion of privacy. It is worst when someone else picks up the copy of a book I've just been enthralled by and begins casually to thumb through the pages. — Nicole Krauss