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There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot. (Scott Adams)
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred Adler)
Bridges: for the sake of unpredictable storms and floods, do not burn or break a bridge - sneak across, jump off, maybe try fixing it before walking away. (Sam Adoquei)
I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise. (Dr. Ala Bashir)
On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me. (Lord Beaverbrook)
Prejudice is always dangerous. (Sister Wendy Beckett)
The danger of early success is that young artists are seduced into simply copying themselves for the rest of their lives. (Eleanor Blair)
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. (Andre Breton)
Look twice before you leap. (Charlotte Bronte)
The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. (Art Buchwald)
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions that when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. (Anthony Burgess)
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. (Joseph Campbell)
A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. (Joyce Cary)
-lived: ca. 1559-1634...
Danger, the spur of all great minds. (George Chapman)
Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net! (David Cobley)
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. (Benjamin Disraeli)
Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided. (Marcel Duchamp)
In danger there is great power. (Agnes Whistling Elk)
As soon as there is life, there is danger. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)
A danger foreseen is half avoided. (Thomas Fuller)
By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous. (Robert Genn)
Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? (Theodore Gericault)
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The fisherman knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for staying ashore. (Vincent van Gogh)
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. (Ernest Hemingway)
It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing. (E. J. Hughes)
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? (Thomas H. Huxley)
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. (Helen Keller)
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
The incumbent hazards lent the activity [mountain climbing] a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. (Jon Krakaur)
Love is dangerous in the best way possible. (Lindsay Lohan)
Live intensely and dangerously. The world may not depend on your efforts, but you do. (Eric Maisel)
For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous. (Deena Metzger)
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. (Henry Miller)
I was hard at work beneath the cliff... In short, absorbed as I was, I didn't see a huge wave coming; it threw me against the cliff and I was tossed about... My immediate thought was that I was done for... the palette which I had kept a grip on had been knocked over my face and my beard was covered in blue, yellow etc.... the worst of it was that I lost my painting which was very soon broken up... everything was torn to shreds by the sea... (Claude Monet)
-at Giverny, September 1, 1914...
A mad panic has swept our area... As for myself, I'm staying here regardless and if those savages insist on killing me, they'll have to do it in the midst of my paintings, before my life's work. (Claude Monet)
The greatest temptation and danger is to rely on previous solutions and thus paint the same picture for the rest of your life. (Charles Movalli)
My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. (Edvard Munch)
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
There's more danger in the violence you don't face. (Michael Ondaatje)
Having your work shaped too much by whatever award scheme or commission is on offer is a clear and present danger. (Judith Palmer)
The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it. (Martin Parr)
Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there. (Isabel Paterson)
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. (Pablo Picasso)
A good picture, any picture, has to be bristling with razor blades. (Pablo Picasso)
The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete. (Joseph Plaskett)
When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. (Chinese proverb)
My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art. (Robert Rauschenberg)
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, to where no one can go any further. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Resolve says, "I will." The man says, "I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying. (Jim Rohn)
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, /
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. (Rumi)
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. (Sir Walter Scott)
You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep. (John Sloan)
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. (Gertrude Stein)
What pleases our mind is not dangerous enough. (Kazuaki Tanahashi)
-The Fellowship of the Ring
It's a dangerous business going out your front door. (J. R. R. Tolkien)
Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger. (Lao Tzu)
-to her daughter, the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1901...
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. (Queen Victoria)
The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough. (Judith Weir)
Ignore the obvious at your peril. (Huw Wheldon)
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties. (Alfred North Whitehead)
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. (Oscar Wilde)
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... (Thornton Wilder)
The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology. (Jamie Wyeth)
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