“I heard Senator Sam Irvin of Watergate fame say something that stayed with me: 'If you can paint a really good picture of a cow, you don't have to write the word "cow" under it.'”
Teaching the Pig to Dance
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American politician and actor 1942–2015Related quotes
“I don't paint cows but light”
Willem Maris (1844–1910) Dutch landscape painter of the Hague School (1844-1910)
version in original Dutch / origineel citaat van Willem Maris: Ik schilder geen koeien, maar licht. <br class="br">2 short Quotes of Willem Maris, c. 1880; as cited in 'Schilder Maris' http://www.wittebrugpark.nl/wittebrugpark/schilders/maris/maris.htm (translation from original Dutch, Fons Heijnsbroek, 2018)
Hiromu Arakawa (1973) award winning Japanese manga artist
Interview with mobuta.com (2004)
“Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Crack-Up
Notebook E: Epigrams, Wisecracks, and Jokes https://books.google.com/books?id=NIhKY8SpAE4C&q=%22You%20don%27t%20write%20because%20you%20want%20to%20say%20something%3B%20you%20write%20because%20you%27ve%20got%20something%20to%20say.%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage, edited by Edmund Wilson (1945) <br class="br">Quoted, The Crack-Up (1936)
Alex Ferguson (1941) Scottish footballer and manager
Goal.com (20 October 2010) http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2914/champions-league/2010/10/20/2175638/sir-alex-ferguson-compares-rooney-situation-to-a-cow-in-a.
John Constable (1776–1837) English Romantic painter
Letter to William Purton (6 February 1836), as quoted in Leslie Parris and Ian Fleming-Williams, Constable (Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1993), p. 380
1830s
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
