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Thoughts unspoken die unborn. The same goes for your paintings. If the desire lies within you, paint your heart out! But above all, keep developing because that's where real life begins. (Tim Adams)
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. (Aesop)
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. (Louisa May Alcott)
The desire to express myself can be triggered by any number of things – a particular experience, a childhood memory, a fleeting thought. Although these are often blurry, the images they evoke become sharper and clearer in time... (Fernando Allevi)
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. (Carl Andre)
He who wants milk should not sit himself in the middle of a pasture waiting for a cow to back up to him. (Anonymous)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self. (Aristotle)
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. (Richard Bach)
I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder. (Elizabeth Barton)
Never let go of the fiery sadness called desire. (Matsuo Basho)
What you don't need is just as important as what you do need. (Romare Bearden)
We artists always want more. This is the challenge of the creative process... (Bonnie R. Beaver)
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. (John Berry)
Don't drink by the water's edge. / Throw yourself in. Become the water. / Only then will your thirst end. (Jeanette Berson)
reason, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire. (Ambrose Bierce)
aim, n. The task we set our wishes to. (Ambrose Bierce)
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. (William Blake)
-title of song, 1905...
I Want What I Want When I Want It. (Henry Blossom)
What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home. (Alain de Botton)
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic. (Alfred Brendel)
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. (Andre Breton)
Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is. (Gerald Brommer)
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. (J. Brotherton)
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
A still life can look very traditional. A floral can look like nothing more than a rendering. But I want them to be larger than life, undeniably there, sucking you in. (Bobbie Burgers)
Gie me a spark o' Nature's fire, / That's a' the learning I desire. (Robert Burns)
I can hardly wait to get the mundane daily tasks finished so I can get into the studio to paint, but then the desire goes right down the drain with the dishwater. (Ardythe Campbell)
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. (Thomas Carlyle)
How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole. (Emily Carr)
There is one big thing – desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little. (Willa Cather)
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense of itself, which has no subject, which means absolutely nothing from the logical point of view... should speak so strongly in us... that we feel compelled to paint... (Giorgio de Chirico)
Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour. (Ken Danby)
To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished. (James Dickey)
Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all that you need or desire. (Dr. Wayne Dyer)
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. (Albert Einstein)
-on Paul Cezanne...
Cezanne found that desire without obstacles could easily be the death of desire. (John Elderfield)
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. (George Eliot)
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. (George Eliot)
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for. (Epicurus)
Aspire to Inspire before you Expire. (Liz Farber)
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Joanna Field)
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. (Ella Fitzgerald)
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. (Benjamin Franklin)
Now that I know what I want, I don't have to hold on to it quite so much. (Lucian Freud)
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you. (Robert Frost)
Never commit the Execution of a Design to him that had been unwilling to approve of it. (Thomas Fuller)
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live – science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. (Remy de Gourmont)
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear; an unhappy state of happiness. (Baltasar Gracian)
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. (Sheila Graham)
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (James Halliwell)
The germ of creation even in something that's not good appeals to me. (Jo Hanson)
-The Wizard of Oz
Someday I'll wish upon a star. (E. Y. Harburg)
Somewhere over the rainbow, bluebirds fly... Why, then, oh why can't I? (E. Y. Harburg)
-letter to Emily Carr...
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable. (Lawren Harris)
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire. (Don Henley)
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. (Eric Hoffer)
The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. (William James)
A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. (Steve Jobs)
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. (Franz Kafka)
We do not always get what we deserve, but we often get what we negotiate. (Gary Karrass)
Personalities don't love. They want something. (Byron Katie)
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know. (John Keats)
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart wants what the heart wants. (Stephen King)
Make sure you want it enough. (Frank Kingdon)
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price. (Rudyard Kipling)
Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation. (Paul Klee)
We demand to be coaxed and comforted, to be encouraged and gratified, so we choose a teacher who will give us what we crave for. We do not search out reality, but go after gratification and sensation. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
-Misattributed from Life's Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ...
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. (Dalai Lama)
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration. (Dalai Lama)
He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. (Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Decide to create the results that you desire. (John Di Lemme)
You can get anything you want in life if you help others get what they want. (George Lengvari)
Granting our wish is one of Fate's saddest jokes. (James Russell Lowell)
Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions. (Eric Maisel)
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. (Andre Maurois)
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will creativity. But we can will to give ourselves to the encounter with intensity of dedication and commitment. (Rollo May)
Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. (Thomas Merton)
Talent for and interest in art are not the only requisite traits needed for making a career as an artist. The main characteristic of most working artists seems to be a strong unabating desire to work. (Nancy Bea Miller)
I'm in fine fettle and fired with a desire to paint. (Claude Monet)
I have been painting the devil alot lately because sin has been all over me once I decided I needed the money for that mobile home. I have done some awful things trying to get that down payment together. (Kelly Moore)
Music makes you feel hungry for more of it. Literature should do the same thing. (Toni Morrision)
An artist wishes to create that ending that begins with a desire. An artist is alone with the brush. ('Namaste' Maggie Murphy)
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses. (Bruce Nauman)
I want people to look at my work, rather than television. (Neith Nevelson)
I'm glad I want everything in the world – good and bad – bitter and sweet – I want it all. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
One day seven years ago I found myself saying to myself - I can't live where I want to - I can't go where I want to go - I can't do what I want to - I can't even say what I want to... I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
Every professional artist craves to create... and to be free, independent in fulfillment of his aim. (Valentin Okorokov)
People who want to be creative, who deeply value such a characteristic in themselves, are more likely to make themselves creative and keep themselves that way... (D. N. Perkins)
You have all you want when you stop wanting. (Lisa Phegn)
Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important. (Pablo Picasso)
Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for? (Camille Pissarro)
I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now. (Ray Prince)
There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind. (Marcel Proust)
It is better to want what you have than to have what you want. (proverb)
The predilection to do something does not actually achieve anything. (Faith Puleston)
A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. (Ayn Rand)
I've needed an impulse from within, a lot of emotional energy to do this stuff, and a kind of desire. It's a very aggressive thing... It's not an aggression like you're hitting it; it's a sensual aggression, if you like. (Paula Rego)
The desire to make a masterpiece is more crippling than a steady stream of criticism. (Stella Reinwald)
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. (Anthony Robbins)
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it. (Jim Rohn)
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you. (Jim Rohn)
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. (Jim Rohn)
I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for. (Andy Rooney)
You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. (Rumi)
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water. (Rumi)
Art was born as a desire, not as a demand. (Eliel Saarinen)
When you don't feel like painting is when you must. (Monique Sakellarios)
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts... (David Seabury)
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress. (Seneca)
The drive to paint becomes an essential guide, directing attention to particular subjects. Almost like love-making, there is anticipation, a build-up of excitement and passion, a lack of control. (Randall Sexton)
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. (George Bernard Shaw)
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. (Marsha Sinetar)
I get up every morning with a desire to do some creative work. This desire is made of the same stuff as the sexual desire, the desire to make money, or any other desire. (Isaac Bashevis Singer)
A wish is like layaway: If you forget about it, you simply won't receive it. (William Carmen Soyak III)
Desire is the very essence of man. (Benedict Spinoza)
You have to know what you want to get. But when you know that, let it take you. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back because that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry. (Gertrude Stein)
Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food... (Irving Stone)
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. (Rabindranath Tagore)
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. (Mother Teresa)
I want a career and conventional success but despite such desires I am usually tripped up by my inability to stop saying what I really believe. (Charles Thomson)
Youth yearning for itself in the present moment is more powerful than words of wisdom about their future. (Robert Toth)
-The Power of Discipline
The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes. (Brian Tracy)
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. (Mark Twain)
I want to paint sunshine and burning golden leaves and blue waters, and laughing faces. (Fred Varley)
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. (Leonardo da Vinci)
We cannot wish for that we know not. (Voltaire)
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. (Denis Waitley)
Landscape sparks in us a desire to render on canvas the poetry that viewing it makes us feel, and in some deeper way, connects us to it like a silent prayer. (Janet Warrick)
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. It it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. (E. B. White)
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. (Oscar Wilde)
Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Decide what you want and don't think of intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us, we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
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