Anthony Doerr Quote

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...

You make name for yourself when you overcome pain, weakness, laziness and ignorance

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is heali...

She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings.

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators.

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.