Lin > Lin's Quotes

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.”
― John Lennon

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”
― Pico Iyer

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
― Edgar Degas

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

“Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town