Howard Pyle Quotes

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I'll continue making films because I love being able to drop into other people's worlds. My goal is to be constantly learning.

Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

My mom is a sculptress.

I also have a role model back in New Zealand, a woman called Miranda Harcourt. She's an actress and a writer. Her willingness to stay open to material is really great. I read a lot, and I try to watch and listen to diverse material.

Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection.

We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

I start from something considered dead and arrive at a world. And when I put a title on it, it becomes even more alive.

In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.