#artist

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#by the time #conviction #delivered #everybody #except

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#artist #attitude #consists #does #his

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#belle #body #creativity #la #source

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant. ↗

— Julien Benda

#attached #man #merchant #much #nations

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit. ↗

— William Bell

#artist #bit #creating #design #different

For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#artiste #fine #gesture #long #make

I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial. ↗

— Luc Besson

#because #commercial #film #films #i

Every man is an artist. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#every #every man #man

No man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where they come separated from the mass of inferior products with which they are mingled in his daily talk. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#hero #spencer #the-story-of-philosophy #equality

That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world got infused with morality again. Every person in the world should theoretically be loved as much as I love my daughters. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #big #daughters #every #got