1,029 Quotes About Lines

It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Faith is almost the bottom line of creativity; it requires a leap of faith any time we undertake a creative endeavor, whether this is going to the easel, or the page, or onto the stage.

The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.

I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

Ingres was one of those artists to whom the outline was something sacred and magical, and the reason is that it was the means of reconciling the major conflict in his art, the conflict between abstraction and sensibility.

Journalists are supposed to be skeptical, that's what keeps them digging rather than simply accepting the official line, whether it comes from government or corporate bureaucrats.

My trouble is insomnia. If I had always slept properly, I'd never have written a line.

Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?