Reimpressed Quotes & Sayings

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. — Ad Reinhardt

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined. — Melvyn Bragg

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing. — Ashton Kutcher

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage. — Captain Beefheart

There are some people whose Twitter feeds are works of art. They intuitively understand how much of themselves to put out there. — Jess Walter

I be dog if hit don't look like sometimes that when a fellow sets out to play a joke, hit ain't another fellow he's playing that joke on; hit's a kind of big power laying still somewhere in the dark that he sets out to prank with without knowing hit, and hit all depends on whether that ere power is in the notion to take a joke or not, whether or not hit blows up right in his face, like this one did in mine. ("A Bear Hunt") — William Faulkner

I write - and read - for the sake of the story ... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself? — Ayn Rand

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous. — Suzanne Curchod

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world. — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example. — Samuel Johnson

Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all. — Tom Brokaw

I'm desperate to work again. I've often had those periods, but two years was the longest. — Charlotte Gainsbourg