Don Blanding famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.
-- Don Blanding

#Sunset #Artist #Dreamer
Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.
-- Don Blanding

#Artist #Choices #Vagabonds
The artesian well of joy never runs dry. We clog it with our thoughts.
-- Don Blanding

#Running #Joy #Dry

My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.
But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.
The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.
I was a great dreamer of day dreams.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

Don Blanding famous quotes

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