The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with…

Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of…

— Oscar Wilde

It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to…

— Dan Colen

Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im going to…

— Dan Colen

There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April...…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately…

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“There are two things which are undeniably cool: walking away from explosions without looking back and turning up late to parties.”

— Frances White

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The essence of cool, after all, is not giving a fuck. And let’s face it: I most definitely give a fuck now. I give…

— Anthony Bourdain

Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted…

— George Friedman

That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation,…

— Paulo Coelho

“See, because being Cool is obviously the most important thing on earth. It’s more important than getting a job, or having a girlfriend, or…

— Ned Vizzini

Yes, I have a driver's license." I leaned back against the wall, sighing. "Man, that must be so cool." "It ranks right up there…

— Kiersten White

Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had…

— Lauren Oliver