Bourbon Quote by Fitz Hugh Ludlow

“I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the…

— William Golding

It is the old experience that a rude instrument in the hand of a master craftsman will achieve more than the finest tool wielded…

— Karl Pearson

He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else…

— Charles Dickens

“ Paine was a grand fellow — high—with the most splendid sense of justice. But he was a reasoner — not warm — not…

— Walt Whitman

“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters…

— Christopher Moore

“A man with battered hands is shown to be a craftsman only when he puts them to work.”

— Miguel Syjuco

“But does it not take an evil mind to make a weapon out of a hammer? Would you see every good man stripped of…

— Michael James Ploof

“They were admirable things for the observer - excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were…

— Jerry Saltz

“On Andrew Jackson: "His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He was the most astonishing contradiction of components I’d ever encountered. Shy yet fiercely communicative when putting an idea into your head. Vocally astringent…

— Chip Kidd