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When I was young I was frightened I might bore other people, now I'm old I'm frightened they will bore me. (Ruth Adam)
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. (Rudolf Arnheim)
I am never lost or bored with painting... my "office" is wherever I decide to set up to paint, and everything under the sun and moon is fair game. (Kenn Backhaus)
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. (Darby Bannard)
I love the freedom of change because I get bored so easily. (Moncy Barbour)
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. (John Berryman)
bore, n. a person who talks when you wish him to listen. (Ambrose Bierce)
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. (Nicolas Boileau)
That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. (Nicolas Boileau)
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. (Charlotte Bronte)
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. (Samuel Butler)
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. (Samuel Butler)
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. (John Cage)
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring. (Elias Canetti)
I thought that by leaving Aix I should leave behind the boredom that pursues me. Actually I have done nothing but change my abode and the boredom has followed me. (Paul Cezanne)
A yawn is a silent shout. (G. K. Chesterton)
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.' (Winston Churchill)
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. (Kitty O'Neill Collins)
A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background. (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Boredom soon overcomes me when I am contemplating nature. (Edgar Degas)
The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. (Eugene Delacroix)
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. (Benjamin Disraeli)
What is it, O Lord, this permanent lassitude that I drag about me? ...Deianira's tunic was no less completely welded to Hercules' back than boredom to my life! It eats into it more slowly, that's all. (Gustave Flaubert)
Fact is, perfection is boring. (Robert Genn)
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. (Lord Hailsham)
Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up. (Margaret Halsey)
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered. (William Hazlitt)
If the basic painting structure bores the eye, no amount of color, texture or detail can save the piece from becoming just another ho-hum painting - pleasant, perhaps, but ultimately forgettable. (Jane R. Hofstetter)
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. (Lou Holtz)
The bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing. (William Ralph Inge)
If you think it's boring, you're boring. (Kristen Innocenti)
Creativity, making art, should never, ever bore the artist. (Cathy Johnson)
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood. (Franz Kafka)
Today I want to start working again in earnest – I'm looking forward to it because doing nothing does become rather boring after a while. (Gustav Klimt)
Artists never seem to get bored with life. (John Kurtz)
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes. (George Leonard)
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities – it is bound up in the series of activities – that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring. (Rene Magritte)
Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist can drown. (Eric Maisel)
I have noticed that after a day of boredom I get more creative, so perhaps our brain needs a rest from time to time. The problem with boredom is that it can give you a bad conscience... (Marianne Mathiasen)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose – for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. (H. L. Mencken)
A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them. (Stephanie Mills)
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. (Baron de Montesquieu)
The sheer horror of getting bored! (John Mortimer)
I have never liked the middle ground – the most boring place in the world. (Louise Nevelson)
Against boredom even the gods contend in vain. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Is not life a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? (Friedrich Nietzsche)
It's a sin to be boring. (Valerie Norberry)
Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative. (Leonard Orr)
It takes a mix of control and a sense of abandon to make art. Plus it's just plain boring to know the exact outcome. (Melanie Peter)
Boredom is a self-inflicted wound. (Eileen Phillips)
One sees so many boring paintings which are unsuccessful because the artist has not thought out what he or she wanted to say in the first place. (Ron Ranson)
Learning to love tedium is a matter of re-tuning your expectations so that the event matters less than a sense of the flow of time – or perhaps, rather, an indifference to the slow of time. (Jonathan Romney)
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. (Rumi)
Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist since half the sins of mankind are caused by fear of it. (Bertrand Russell)
It's not just a boring exercise in pushing oil paint around a canvas. It's a way of opening a threshold to an exciting new world of vision. (Nelson Shanks)
People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like. (George Bernard Shaw)
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other. (Susan Sontag)
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. (Gertrude Stein)
Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. (Leo Stein)
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. (Saul Steinberg)
This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. (Stendhal)
Somebody's boring me... I think it's me. (Dylan Thomas)
Boredom is rage spread thin. (Paul Tillich)
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him. (Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree)
The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything. (Frank Tyger)
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. (John Updike)
How boring the art world would be if we faithfully painted only what we see. (Curtis Verdun)
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out. (Voltaire)
You are my host in that rectangle. You mustn't bore me. Change is the only antidote to boredom. (Edgar Whitney)
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. (Oscar Wilde)
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