A Quote by John Paul Caponigro

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

John Paul Caponigro

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John Paul Caponigro
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Born: June 23, 1965

You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.

Amy Sillman

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

Paul Caponigro

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

It's one thing to make the big leagues, but it's another thing to make it to an all-star game.

Christian Yelich

I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a physical object. I like things that are labor-intensive : you make a little thing and another little thing and another little thing, and eventually you see a possibility.

Kiki Smith

There is thing you can do but I can not and there is thing I can but you can not; so let us make something beautiful together

Mother Teresa

[Winning an Oscar] was a beautiful thing that happened. It is in my house, and every time I look at, I see all the people who are a part of it, all the people who gave me opportunities to work, gave me opportunities to make a living at this thing [acting] that was a dream for me, growing up. And I got to do it, and then again and again and again, and make a living out of being an actress.

Penelope Cruz

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

E. F. Schumacher

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

Madeleine Albright

It's one thing to make something, and then it's another thing to put it in front of other people.

Lucy Dacus

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

Ally Condie

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.

Stephen Covey

It's one thing to play football in this league and make a living, but it's a totally different thing to come to a place with a rich tradition like the Bears.

Julius Peppers

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

Mark Twain

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

Vincent Van Gogh

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