Able Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Fool Men Paint Wise Wise man
Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I can paint anything. Leonardo? Of course. But why? You couldn't sell it. — Wolfgang Beltracchi Copy Share Image
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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I don't know if there will ever be an ideal way of selling an original picture. Because everything you're doing, you're inventing. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
Don't listen to the fools who say that pictures of people can be of no consequence, or that painting is dead. There is much… — R. B. Kitaj Copy Share Image
I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
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Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
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What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
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