Artist Quote by Claude Monet

“Isn’t that what intimacy so often is? Supposing you understand, conveying that you do, because you feel in theory that you could understand, and…

— Rachel Kushner

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

— Hans Hofmann

There aren't really rules for painting, but there’s certain facts and fictions about painting. Part of what I do is document another surface and…

— Vija Celmins

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey…

— Conor Oberst

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

— Leo Tolstoy

President Obama gave a speech about healthcare tonight, and yesterday he gave a pep talk to students. He told them that in order to…

— Conan O'Brien

If, in order to succeed in an enterprise, I were obliged to choose between fifty deer commanded by a lion, and fifty lions commanded…

— Vincent de Paul

Executive Intelligence is about the specific skills one must have in order to succeed in senior leadership positions, i.e. the ability to evaluate underlying…

— Justin Menkes

I was raised to believe that you had to do things better than white people in order to succeed. The old black shows were…

— Chris Rock

In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of…

— Michael Korda

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply…

— Claude Monet