My Work Quotes
1534 My Work quotes by 1151 unique authors
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left…
— Agnes Denes
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In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals...
— Laura Poitras
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What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you…
— Ryan Adams
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I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.
— Marianne Moore
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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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My work is loving the world.
— Mary Oliver
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I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.
— Henri Matisse
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My models, my human figures, are never like extras in an interior. They are the main theme of my work. I depend absolutely on my…
— Henri Matisse
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Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
— Arthur Miller
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What am I in most people's eyes? A nonentity or an eccentric and disagreeable man... I should want my work to show what is in…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I'm getting so slow at my work it makes me despair, but... I'm increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I'm…
— Claude Monet
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Thanks to my work everything's going well; it's a great consolation.
— Claude Monet
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
— Claude Monet
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My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go…
— Angelina Jolie
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Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me…
— Max Ehrmann
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I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with…
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
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I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't…
— Andrew Wyeth
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I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work,…
— Barnett Newman
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I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work…
— Jean Dubuffet
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About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated…
— Emily Carr
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