Dancey Creel Quotes

#1. I guess it's better to have a chalk smile, than an ink smile. Where chalk changes with the direction of wind, ink stays as a deep stain. Like rain, sun and hail against a fake plant.

Anthony Liccione

#2. You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh ... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

John Currin

#3. It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

Angela Phillips

#4. One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

Alison Bechdel

#5. I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Jeannette Walls

#6. For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

Bill Vaughan

#7. She gave me a smile that left me wondering if I wanted to slap it off her, or kiss it.

Mark Lawrence

#8. With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.

Ray Bradbury

#9. I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.

Steve Case

#10. I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

Neil Gaiman

#11. What humans have spontaneously identified as good and bad - or as positive and negative - are evolutionary complementations in need of more accurate identifications.

R. Buckminster Fuller