His Work Quotes

549 His Work quotes by 422 unique authors

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of… — Tennessee Williams
It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could… — Calvin Coolidge
He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own… — Ray Bradbury
The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work. — Anton Chekhov
[Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blur the vision God had give her of… — Elisabeth Elliot
Anyone can carry his burden, however heavy, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political… — Pat Conroy
When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the… — William Blake
Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation… — Lord Dunsany
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills… — Mitch Albom
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. — Umberto Eco
The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and… — Patti Smith
How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting… — Francis Schaeffer
George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically… — Thomas Hardy
Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which… — Matthew Henry
Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is… — Ernest Hemingway
Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have… — Paula McLain
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man… — Tamora Pierce
But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of… — Melina Marchetta
Everything was red, the air, the sun, whatever I looked at. Except for him. I fell in love with someone who was human. I watched… — Alice Hoffman
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader. I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were… — Robert Frost
Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred as the work of the ministry. It… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
For the neurotic, the merging of the subconscious and the conscious may be risky, just as it is for the users of drugs. But for… — Anais Nin
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done… — William Gaddis

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