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Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to make a drawing of a tulip using five lines, or using a hundred, you'd have to be more inventive with the five. — David HockneyArt has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — David Hockney · 1988Love2 quotes
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! — Emily Bronte · 1847Abandonment1 quote
Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! — Emily Bronte · 1847America1 quote
The weakness of American civilization, and perhaps the chief reason why it creates so much discontent, is that it is so curiously abstract. It is a bloodless extrapolation of a satisfying life... You dine off the advertiser's "sizzling" and not the meat of the steak. — J.B. Priestley · 1971Artistic constraints1 quote
Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to make a drawing of a tulip using five lines, or using a hundred, you'd have to be more inventive with the five. — David HockneyAutumn1 quote
Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves! — Humbert Wolfe · 1926Connecting with others1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847Creativity1 quote
Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to make a drawing of a tulip using five lines, or using a hundred, you'd have to be more inventive with the five. — David HockneyCriticism of America1 quote
The weakness of American civilization, and perhaps the chief reason why it creates so much discontent, is that it is so curiously abstract. It is a bloodless extrapolation of a satisfying life... You dine off the advertiser's "sizzling" and not the meat of the steak. — J.B. Priestley · 1971Freedom of youth1 quote
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free. — Emily Bronte · 1847Girlhood1 quote
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free. — Emily Bronte · 1847Human nature1 quote
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte · 1847Limitations and constraints1 quote
Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to make a drawing of a tulip using five lines, or using a hundred, you'd have to be more inventive with the five. — David HockneyLimits of language1 quote
It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music. — Frederick Delius · 1920Man as social animal1 quote
We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. — J.B. Priestley · 1945Music1 quote
It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music. — Frederick Delius · 1920Nature of art1 quote
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus. — David Hockney · 1988Power of music1 quote
It is only that which cannot be expressed otherwise that is worth expressing in music. — Frederick Delius · 1920Relationships1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847Seasons1 quote
Listen! the wind is rising,
and the air is wild with leaves,
We have had our summer evenings,
now for October eves! — Humbert Wolfe · 1926Shit rolls downhill1 quote
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them. — Emily Bronte · 1847Snow1 quote
The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found? — J.B. Priestley · 1928Soulmates1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847The soul1 quote
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. — Emily Bronte · 1847Youth1 quote
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free. — Emily Bronte · 1847