Can Do Quotes - Page 15

• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Intelligent, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

  Brian Tracy

  Moving, Thinking, Goal

  26 Copy quote

• Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

  Bette Midler

  Hacks, I Can

  7 Copy quote

• Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

  Peter McWilliams

  People, Giving, Desire

  8 Copy quote

• If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Inspiration, Needs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4140, Library of Alexandria

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.

  Paul Cezanne

  Simple, Wish, May

  7 Copy quote

• One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Horror, Good Things

  4 Copy quote

• On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Mean, Artist, Ivory

  22 Copy quote

• One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything.

  John Gielgud

  Confidence, Self, Important

  21 Copy quote

• Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

  Daniel Dennett

  Technology, Understanding, Pace

  Daniel C. Dennett (2007). “Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon”, p.256, Penguin UK

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Line is so versatile - you can do a fine, tight, closely observed description or simply put a line around an idea - like a cartoonist.

  Stan Smith

  Ideas, Lines, Description

  10 Copy quote

• Part of the triumph of modernist poetry is, indeed, to have demonstrated the great extent to which verse can do without explicit meaning and yet not sacrifice anything essential to its effect as art. Here, as before, successful art can be depended upon to explain itself.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Sacrifice, Successful

  "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, "T.S. Eliot: A Book Review" (1950/1956), p. 244, 1961.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's no easy matter to paint a background. I venture to say that the old painters had more difficulty with their grounds than with their figures. You know the story of Vandyke brought to Rubens with this recommendation: 'He already knows how to paint a background.' 'That is more than I can do!' was the reply.

  William Morris Hunt

  Venture, Matter, Stories

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Maybe from now on puppets can do the parts

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Puppets, Parting

  7 Copy quote

• Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there's nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

  Bob Gibson

  Power, Fishing, Relax

  13 Copy quote

• If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Risk, Able

  10 Copy quote

• I must be thankful that I get to do intense dramatic roles, because it takes so much more, whereas I've been doing L'Oreal forever, and I can do that in my sleep.

  Andie MacDowell

  Sleep, Being Thankful, Forever

  7 Copy quote

• You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

  Kimon Nicolaides

  Creativity, Creative, Way

  Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  People

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2004). “The World of Perception”, p.87, Routledge

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is a fantastic fight for the championship. I'm really confident and believe we can do it.

  Fernando Alonso

  Believe, Fighting, Championship

  5 Copy quote

• Nothing. There's nothing you can do. As soon as you do something you'll no-longer be average.

  Julian Assange

  Average

  4 Copy quote

• We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

  Asger Jorn

  Knowledge, Needs, Generations

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• On me, on me Time and change can heap no more! The painful past with blighting grief Hath left my heart a withered leaf. Time and change can do no more.

  Richard Henry Horne

  Grief, Heart, Past

  7 Copy quote

• There are subtle things you can do without crossing the line. If I see I've got up my opponent's nose, I will be over the moon. Job done.

  Ian Poulter

  Jobs, Moon, Crossing The Line

  7 Copy quote

• A parent's job is to encourage kids to develop a joy for life and a great urge to follow their own dreams. The best we can do is to help thm develop a personal set of tools for the task.

  Randy Pausch

  Family, Dream, Jobs

  Randy Pausch (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.204, Hachette UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source