Art
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist and philosopher.
I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
Martin Luther (1483-1546) German priest and scholar.
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) American columnist, lecturer and humanitarian.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British politician and author.
Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet.
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer.