Woodcut Quotes

#1. You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.

Margaret Preston

#2. The rooftops of Ankh-Morpork sprouted a fine array of gargoyles even in normal times, but now they were alive with as ghastly an array of faces as ever were seen outside a woodcut about the evils of gin-drinking among the non-woodcut-buying classes.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Pure is honourable.
Honourable is right.
Right is lovely.
Lovely is admirable.
Admirable is excellent.
Excellent is prasie worthy.
Praise worthy is peace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.

Jock Sturges

#5. When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

W. Clement Stone

#6. It was important to me to make a film where I don't show the past but where the spectators can see the past.

Asghar Farhadi

#7. Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

Joe Hyams

#8. As a man thinketh
Our remedies in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven

William Shakespeare

#9. I've been married three times and divorced three times.

Rick Wakeman

#10. Be grateful for all the disappointments and failures you have had. They give you something extremely valuable: experience!

Johnathan Christ

#11. Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Kim Harrison

#12. Do not look so happy. I tell you ahead of time. All my students despise me.

Jandy Nelson

#13. Mind that is fast is sick, a mind that is slow is sound, and a mind that is still is divine. This is what the Bible means when it says, Be still and know that I am God.

Eknath Easwaran