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Paint like your hair's on fire. (Scott Lloyd Anderson)
We cannot kindle when we will / The fire which in the heart resides, / The spirit bloweth and is still, / In mystery our soul abides. (Matthew Arnold)
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. (Sir Francis Bacon)
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. (Nikolai Berdyaev)
Tiger, tiger burning bright, / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye, / Could frame thy fearful symmetry. (William Blake)
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. (Victor Borge)
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Ray Bradbury)
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. (Abigail Van Buren)
When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one! (Paul Cezanne)
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. (Leonard Cohen)
Avarice, envy, pride, / Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all / On Fire. (Dante)
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Dante)
If you try to be something that you're not / when the Heat and Pressure come to test you / you will be pulverized and burnt. (David Dory)
What is to give light must endure burning. (Viktor Frankl)
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. (Sigmund Freud)
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth. (Thomas Fuller)
How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno? (Arun Gandhi)
How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered? (Paul Gauguin)
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. (Kahlil Gibran)
Wherever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned. (Heinrich Heine)
The struggle and the sense of satisfaction at a job well done are essential in keeping the creative fires burning. (Sidney Julius)
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. (Franz Kafka)
A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond. (Paul Klee)
How close we are in behavior to moths attracted to the flame. Trying not to burn out too quickly. (Jamie Lavin)
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn. (David Louis)
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. (Mignon McLaughlin)
Not till the fire is dying in the grate, / Look we for any kinship with the stars. (George Meredith)
Rekindle your creative fire by making time to play. (Mari Messer)
For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes. (Joan Miro)
...I had so much fire in me and so many plans... (Claude Monet)
The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. (Ovid)
The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it. (P. K. Page)
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. (Walter Pater)
When you come right down to it, all you have is yourself. Yourself is a sun with a thousand fires in your belly. The rest is nothing. (Pablo Picasso)
Fight fire with fire. (proverb)
Spontaneous painting lights my fire. (Laury Ravenstein)
Hello, the fire! (Dan Rice)
Produce, edit and burn. (Norman Ridenour)
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire, and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. (Auguste Rodin)
Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it. (Rumi)
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. (Albert Schweitzer)
Out, out, brief candle! (William Shakespeare)
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. (Fred Shero)
We need to pay exquisite attention to our responses to things – noticing what makes our flame glow brighter. If we pay attention to those things, we'll be able to catch the flame and feed it. (Nina Simons)
It is with words as with sunbeams – the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. (Robert Southey)
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. (Dylan Thomas)
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
A fire in the belly doesn't light itself. (unknown)
-on a child doing homework near the family's television set...
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. (John Updike)
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. (Denis Waitley)
Defeat in one piece only stokes the fires for the next. (Annette Waterbeek)
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