Bill Plympton Quotes

Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.

Bill Plympton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 30, 1946

Topics

GoodGreatThinkArtistNiceMore

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

HeartWarmYouSeenEver

I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.

Andrea Bocelli

FatherMeWaitLovedHorseGo

I run a lot every morning.

Tom Cotton

MorningRunEveryLot

At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'

Mary Steenburgen

MirrorWifePeopleMomCrazyDeep

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

Luis Suarez

PassionRegretYouSometimesThings

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

AnythingDelightOwning

I don't like the sun, but I live in California.

Liz Goldwyn

LiveSunCaliforniaLike

My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

Josh Tillman

DeathCreativeSingingVoiceObvious

The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

PowerMediaNeedCorporations

Love is what really fuels you, and that goes for relationships with a spouse or with family. Love is a beautiful thing.

Christina Milian

FamilyLoveBeautifulLove IsYou

It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.

Clive Sinclair

WorkStyleMistakeThinkBigWould

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Claude Pepper

WorldThinkingGenerationBetter

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