Philosophical quotes for artists

Image: Gabrielle Jones,"Time trees and the evening Sky", 2010 Oil on Canvas, 122 x 152cm

“The talent is in the choices” Robert de Niro, Actor

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man”. Geroge Bernard Shaw, poet and playwright.

It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be” Paul Aster, Author.

Don’t ask what the world needs – ask what makes you come alive and then do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive” Howard Martin.

Every Heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world and bettered the tradition of mankind” R. L Stevenson, Poet and author.

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least” Goethe, Writer and Philosopher.