Quentin Crisp
Related Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ... JOHN W. DIXON FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an ... FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in TERRY BISSON An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up prec... STEPHEN STILLS RAYMOND CHANDLER TOM WILSON C. JOYBELL C. Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my... ROALD DAHL PIET HEIN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN ORHAN PAMUK A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY JEAN COCTEAU ANDRE MAUROIS REBECCA WEST TOM WILSON TOM WILSON As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE LORD CHESTERFIELD CLAUDE MONET BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GERMANY KENT REBECCA WEST The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life. ANUJ SOMANY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, becau... CATHERINE HICKS ELVIS MITCHELL DEYTH BANGER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA DENIS WAITLEY DENIS WAITLEY DENIS WAITLEY JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE SARAH J. MAAS GERMANY KENT DANIEL BARENBOIM Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no... JAMES C. DOBSON I'm a goal setter, but in broad strokes. I don't have a by-October-2009-I-want-to-be-here pl... ERIC DANE ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antith... BILLY DEE WILLIAMS GUSTAVE FLAUBERT GUSTAVE FLAUBERT LARRY WALL SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE KARL KRAUS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN JOHN GREEN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AMIT KALANTRI RAYMOND CHANDLER SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the ... ANDREI TARKOVSKY DEYTH BANGER A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a... RENé DAUMAL J. B. YEATS Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the p... ROBIN SACREDFIRE LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") “The artist must be in the art. If the art does not reflect the work of the artist, then it was cr... AARON CHAPMAN From my point of view it's quite simple - I only want to cite if a player is injured and can take no... GARETH JENKINS Behind every work of art lies the enormous pretension of exhibiting one's vision of the world. If su... AMéLIE NOTHOMB PIET MONDRIAN E. E. CUMMINGS MARTIN H. FISCHER AKSHAY VASU CHARLIE KAUFMAN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS EZRA POUND THEOPHILE GAUTIER There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the le... CLIVE BELL ROLLO MAY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PETER BEARD LAILAH GIFTY AKITA An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. ANDRES SERRANO I wish that I could live without you DAZZLїиG_Бципу DAVID HOCKNEY DAVID CRYSTAL JOSEPH CONRAD A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft... LOUIS NIZER A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft... LOUIS NIZER NORTHROP FRYE Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express ... RUDOLF BING DEBASISH MRIDHA GEORGE ORWELL
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QUENTIN S. CRISP The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid. JONATHAN CRISP Treading lightly with the water we've got and waiting for more will ensure that there's plenty when ... DALE CRISP Our rover might not last that long. JOY CRISP I was a little disappointed in the West Lincoln match. We lost a few matches in which we were ahead. MARK CRISP This is an unusual event in that it's lasted so long and that it's occurred at such a unique time, b... DALE CRISP They've adhered to the restrictions well. We just need them to continue that patience and to continu... DALE CRISP We're actually more in a deficit than we were at the height of the drought when the lake was at its ... DALE CRISP The images provide measurements of surface features and are allowing us to assess the slopes more ca... JOY CRISP It looks like a loose rock that is blacker and rougher than the material of Home Plate and so we wan... JOY CRISP When you look at this image you can really say that Spirit has found some interesting stuff. JOY CRISP Putting all the clues together -- the mineral, chemical and textural clues -- we have found good evi... JOY CRISP We're interested in finding out whether that bright rim material is the same as the outcrop rock or ... JOY CRISP It really depends on the specific mission and whether you know enough to give those smarts. It certa... JOY CRISP For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all ... QUENTIN BRYCE I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Au... QUENTIN BRYCE Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the wo... QUENTIN BRYCE The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of... 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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. 
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I c... 
These days an income is something you can't live without - or within. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the... 
Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again... 
I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry 
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob... 
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece wi... 
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. 
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her ... 
An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. 
These days an income is something you can't live without--or within. 
These days an income is something you can't live without -- or within. 
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. 
Water Lilies' is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without ... 
The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs o... 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work... 
I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. 
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspect... 
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspect... 
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspect... 
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... 
No one can be an artist without a rich inner life. 
When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... 
A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when h... 
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be. 
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve,
And hope without an object cannot live. 
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adher... 
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut... 
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! 
Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience. 
There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop... 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin... 
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience, and live without heart;... 
If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pic... 
Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ... 
A man who cannot work without his hypodermic needle is a poor doctor. The amount of narcotic you use... 
Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful thing... 
It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creati... 
How sad a thing for an artist to abandon his art: I think it's much sadder than death ..., 
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery ... 
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. 
Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce wo... 
An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serio... 
Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world. 
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i... 
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; ... 
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty... 
In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pre... 
Through art we can see the reflection of the inner world of an artist. 
People are wrong when they think that an unemployed man only worries about losing his wages; on the ... 
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen chan... 
Abatement in the hostility of one's enemies must never be thought to signify they have been won ... 
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum... 
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don&... 
My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the cra... 
I steal from every movie ever made.