Quotes by : Brenda Ueland

(about William Blake)[Blake] said most of us mix up God and Satan. He said that what most people think....

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist....

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are....

In true courage there is always an element of choice of an ethical choice and of anguish and also....

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.

...the best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it. And what is the purpose of existence....

When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He....

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.