Quotes by Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland

… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Artist

Materialistic

Want

… to paint with oil paints for the first time … is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

Boxing

Oil

Pie

…writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Generosity

Performances

Writing

All children have creative power.

Children

Creative

Power

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Beloved

Doe

Listening

Be bold, free, and truthful.

Freedom

Truth

Truthful

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. “Be not anxious for the morrow,” and “which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?” So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

Artist

Peace

People

Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don’t love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.

Love You

Mean

Nice

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Creative

Creative Power

Live In The Present

Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. “I will not Reason and Compare,” said Blake; “my business is to Create.” Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

Reason

Said

Wonder

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Art

Artist

Attitude

Believe

Beloved

Blow

Boxing

Care

Children

Choices

Coffee

Compassion

Cowardice

Creative

Creative Power

Creativity

Diaries

Doe

Done

Doors

Each Day

Editors

Effort

Ends

Feelings

Fighting

Fitness

Fixed

Flames

Fountain

Freedom

Fun

Generosity

Happiness

Hate

Hero

Honest

Honesty

Horse

Husband

Ideas

Imagination

Inspirational

Jobs

Knows

Laughter

Lazy

Life

Light

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Quotes by Brenda Ueland

Brenda Ueland

… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

… to paint with oil paints for the first time … is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

…writing is not a performance but a generosity.

All children have creative power.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Be bold, free, and truthful.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Don’t always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. “I will not Reason and Compare,” said Blake; “my business is to Create.” Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.

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