Painting The Center Line

What isn't tried won't work. - Claude McDonald

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. - Mark Twain

Work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire

The harder you work, the harder it is to lose. - Unknown

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen

Life is "trying things to see if they work". - Ray Bradbury

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon

From each according to his ability, to each according to his work - Claude de Rouvroy

Work before pleasure - for there is no real pleasure without work. - Unknown

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy

The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford clinic. - Joanna Lumley

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. - Anna Quindlen

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work. - Chuck Close

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky. - Robert Wilson

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working. - Frank Lloyd Wright

When you work the buttons here, see, it develops what ya call the digitalis skills. - Archie Bunker

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously. - Jay Leno

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work. - Elena Bonner

Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. - Henry Drummond

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work. - Patrick M.S. Blackett

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. - Joseph Joubert

I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off. - Rachel McAdams

The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. - Maurice Switzer

President Ford tells us all to bite the bullet and Betsy Ford goes on TV and shoots off her mouth. - Archie Bunker

Sometimes you have to work hard for what you want. Sometimes, hard work is what makes it precious. - Ute Carbone

I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself. - Joseph Conrad

Which is probably the reason why I work exclusively in black and white... to highlight that contrast. - Leonard Nimoy

One machine can do the work of a hundred ordinary men, but no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

One of the endearing things about mathematicians is the extent to which they will go to avoid doing any real work. - Matthew Pordage

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? - Barbara Streisand

Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation. - Gerald Chertavian

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury

Worrying is less work than doing something to fix the worry. Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom with the dishes. - P.J. O'Rourke

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly. - Harvey Mackay

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. - Carl Jung

I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing. - Melissa McCarthy