Famous quotes containing the words pencil and/or artist:
“Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
My person degrade & my temper chastise;
And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)