Famous quotes containing the words gold, artist and/or prize:
“We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses’ instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)
“An artist is always alone—if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)