Asher Durand Quotes

#1. Revenge is a tricky beast. Her claws face both ways. I don't mind a few more scars. They'll be unnoticed among the rest.

Kim Harrison

#2. Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

David Shields

#3. Reading becomes the fuel for development.

Narendra Modi

#4. Let me earnestly recommend ... one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction ... the Studio of Nature.

Asher Brown Durand

#5. I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive ... is money.

Asher Brown Durand

#6. When you believe in me : you believe in
your Betrayal : Never.
P.C.M. Hermans
Babaji
06-09-2016
Netherlands

Petra Hermans

#7. Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.

Milton Friedman

#8. You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.

Eleanor Brownn

#9. Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer.

Gao Xingjian

#10. The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

Asher Brown Durand

#11. Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

Asher Brown Durand

#12. I think I am a pretty good judge of character in general and try to surround myself with the best people I can.

Avicii

#13. When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.

Larry Ellison

#14. It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.

Meister Eckhart

#15. All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

Asher Brown Durand