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Sherwood Anderson - From the Advice category:
- Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Artists category:
- Winesburg, Ohio...
Everyone knows of the talking artists. Throughout all of the known history of the world they have gathered in rooms and talked. They talk of art and are passionately, almost feverishly, in earnest about it. They think it matters much more than it does. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Artists category:
- Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
The thing, of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor. The point of being an artist is that you may live. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Belief category:
- The Triumph of the Egg...
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Courage category:
Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything... (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Drawing category:
- Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
Learn to draw. Try to make your hand so unconsciously adept that it will put down what you feel without your having to think of your hands. Then you can think of the thing before you. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Experience category:
- Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
The fools who write articles about me think that one morning I suddenly decided to write and began to produce masterpieces. There is no special trick about writing, or painting either. I wrote constantly for 15 years before I produced anything with any solidity to it. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Insecurity category:
It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Journey category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
You won't arrive. It is an endless search. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Knowledge category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Love category:
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Masters category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Money category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Possessions category:
-The Triumph of the Egg...
People who have few possessions cling tightly to those they have. That is one of the facts that make life so discouraging. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Production category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Religion category:
-Winesburg, Ohio...
Whereas God, for reasons of His own, sometimes chooses to let the machine answer. 'The Supreme Being is unavailable to come to the phone at this time, but He wants you to know what your call is important to Him. In the meantime, for sins of pride, press one. For avarice, press two...' (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Satisfaction category:
Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Selling category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Subject category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
Draw things that have some meaning to you. An apple, what does it mean? The object drawn doesn't matter so much. It's what you feel about it, what it means to you. A masterpiece could be made of a dish of turnips. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Taste category:
-Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children...
Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Thinking category:
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Thought category:
That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful. (Sherwood Anderson)
Sherwood Anderson - From the Words category:
-Winesburg, Ohio...
You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say. (Sherwood Anderson)
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