Max Liebermann Quotes

#1. I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.

Diane Hendricks

#2. Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

Max Liebermann

#3. I ask my destiny - what power is this That cruelly drives me onward without rest? My destiny says, "Look round!" I turn back and see It is I myself that is ever pushing me from behind.

Rabindranath Tagore

#4. Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

Max Liebermann

#5. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

William Congreve

#6. Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.

Caroline Kepnes

#7. I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born.

Jeff Kinney

#8. The art of drawing is the art of omission.

Max Liebermann

#9. Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. To 'kill time' is a case of mistaken identity -- you have mistaken the victim for the perp.

Oran Kangas

#11. It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

Cesar Chavez

#12. My mother carried me for 10 months. I asked her 'Mother, you had an extra month, why you didn't make me a beautiful face?' and mother told me, 'My son, I was busy making your beautiful hands and heart.'

Mstislav Rostropovich