Inspirational Quote by William Butler Yeats Download Open image “Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk” — William Butler Yeats ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Painter Painting Poet Poetry Sculptors Shirk
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
It used to be that painters were crazy and sculptors clever. Today it's the other way around. — Giorgio de Chirico Copy Share Image
He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“I had not then acquired the technique that I flatter myself now enables me to deal competently with the works of modern artist. If this were the place I could write a very neat little guide to enable the amateur of pictures to deal to the satisfaction of their painters with the most diverse manifestations of the creative instinct. There… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image