Paper Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old paper quotes, paper sayings, and paper proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. Alain De Botton
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. Alvar Aalto
You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice. Edwidge Danticat
When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything. Ellsworth Kelly
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. Ernest Hemingway
If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles. Gertrude Stein
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily. Gilda Radner
The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. James Harrington
The best place to solve a problem is on paper. Jim Rohn
Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. Jim Rohn
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. John Prine
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper and re-imagines the world. Malcolm Gladwell
Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone. Mani Ratnam
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands – your own. Mark Victor Hansen
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. Pablo Picasso
I wish I could just project everything on the paper. Patti Smith
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. Pearl Bailey
Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper. Pete Rose
No one can ever create art, even on a piece of paper, as they have envisioned it in their mind. S. S. Rajamouli
You can only generate ideas when you put pencil to paper, brush to canvas when you actually do something physical. Twyla Tharp
Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot. William Shatner