Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun Quotes

#1. The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

Norman Vincent Peale

#3. Painters aren't expected to paint bleak pictures, are they?

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#5. When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!

Illinois Jacquet

#6. The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.

Mickey Hart

#7. Spontaneity is the mother of crudity.

Adolfo Bioy Casares

#8. We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.

Prince Charles

#9. You can't make a movie about making movies - it's boring.

Jon Favreau