A Quote by George Luks

Art - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard.

George Luks

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Art Guts Lard Life Paint Pitch Shoe String

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George Luks
American - Artist
August 13, 1867 - October 29, 1933

Some think guts is sprinting at the end of a race. But guts is what got you there to begin with. Guts start back in the hills with 6 miles to go and you're thinking of how you can get out of this race without anyone noticing. Guts begin when you still have forty minutes of torture left and you're already hurting more than you ever remember.

George A. Sheehan

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Wayne Coyne

Private Joker is silly and he's ignorant but he's got guts and guts is enough.

Stanley Kubrick

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

Dan Rather

If I am to choose two words that best describes myself, they are 'self-esteem' and 'guts.' Guts helped me become a global model.

Sung Jin Park

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Patrick Rothfuss

[On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

Caitlin Thomas

Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

Doris Lessing

It takes a lot of guts to stop measuring things that are measurable, and even more guts to create things that don't measure well by conventional means.

Seth

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Tennessee Williams

Can't we be friends?' I hate your guts, Frankovitch' Can't our guts be friends?

Barbara Park

I'm saying nobody's got the guts to be a J. Cole. Nobody's got the guts to be a Kendrick Lamar. We need more of them... Everybody wants to go the easy route.

Mannie Fresh

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Jimmy Connors

If they don't have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, 'I don't want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers ... if they don't have the guts, I call them girlie men.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you can go through the pain period, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through it, forget it. And that's what most people lack: having the guts - the guts to go in and just say... "I don't care what happens"

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.