Jacob Lawrence Artist Quotes

#1. Grace is not a doctrine or a religion. It is a person, Jesus Christ.

John Paul Warren

#2. He did not run from his grief, nor did he deny its existence. He could study his grief from a distance, like a scientist observing animals. He embraced it, accepted it, acknowledged that it would never go away. It was as much a part of him as any pleasant feeling. Perhaps even more so.

Becky Chambers

#3. Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.

Alexander Pope

#4. Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going.

Sarah Price

#5. All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

Jacob Lawrence

#6. I think funniness is a sign of intelligence.

Chelsea Martin

#7. My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

Jacob Lawrence

#8. They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

Horace

#9. I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

Nick Park

#10. I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

Ang Lee

#11. I get the blues for him, for me, for all of us: for want of something to do we keep slaying our small dragons as the big one waits.

Charles Bukowski

#12. You bring to a painting your own experience.

Jacob Lawrence

#13. I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Eminem

#14. Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

Martin Buber

#15. Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

Mao Zedong

#16. I don't remember much about being born but I hear it's quite a traumatic experience.

Phil Wohl