#bit

When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#ago #anyone #buy #each #exhibitions

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#bitter #eyes #happiness #how #into

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#confess #dictatorial #doing #editing #his

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#art #association #college #doing #exhibition

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#after #any #anybody #anywhere #been

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#made #should #sterner #stuff

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#him #honour #i #slew #valiant

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#dream #merely #shadow #substance #very

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#bit #even #humor #i #people

Mandela once phoned me out of the blue while he was still president, and at first he played with me a bit. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#blue #first #mandela #me #once