Well Trained Pencil

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

I'm proud to be a railway modeler. - Rod Stewart

What an artist the world is losing in me. - Nero

Primitive Artist: An amateur whose work sells - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Railroads: Two backbones with a thousand ribs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Trapeze Artist: A guy who gets the hang of things. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2? - George Carlin

Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train. - Charles Barkley

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

School Of Hard Knocks: Where they train door-to-door salesmen - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

Pickup artist: An artist whose specialty is painting pictures of trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. - Andy Warhol

The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train. - David Lee Roth

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train! - Mariah Carey

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

The mission of the artist in an over-technologized society, is to call the old magic back to life. - Tom Robbins

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. - Malcolm Muggeridge

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. - Jon Bon Jovi

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence. - Howard Eves

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump. - Andrew Vachss

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch in a railroad track ... an inch between a wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity. - Henry Ward Beecher

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. - Theodore Roosevelt

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte