Pearl S. Buck Quotes

The greatest gift I've ever received is being a teacher.

My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

All artists are crackpots. And it's their finest feature.

Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

Anybody who knows the public school teacher world knows there's not a lot of money in teaching. You do it because you love what you do.

All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness, calmness and quietness surrounds them. They are no longer feverish. What I am teaching here is really to turn the whole world feminine.

I think [teacher] is the noblest profession.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Teaching is a sacred profession. And art is a form of teaching.

Cezanne, you see, is a sort of God of painting.

Teaching has never been far from my life. It's the most natural thing I do. Apparently, as I said, I cannot not do it.

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

The role of the teacher remains the highest calling of a free people.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I love teaching. I wouldn't take a job that didn't include it.

The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible... But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!