Well Trained Pencil

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

It costs nothing to encourage an artist. - Kevin Smith

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist. - Franz Liszt

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

My train of thought derailed. There were no survivors. - Unknown

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

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

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

If God had intended us to fly, He would never have given us railways. - Michael Flanders

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space? - Valentina Tereshkova

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

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately. - Eleanor R. Belmont

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

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde

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

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time. - Martha Graham

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

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

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

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

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder. - Tom Hodgkinson

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

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

It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight. - Kalpana Chawla

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

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

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

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

Do not train boys to learning by force and harshness, but lead them by what amuses them, so that they may better discover the bent of their minds. - Plato

My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out. - Robert Carlyle