#artistic

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#illness #shakespeare #writers #intelligence

The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#artist #artistic-endeavor #artistic-passion #artists-life #art

For isn't the artist by nature a revolutionary? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#nature

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me. ↗

— Paula Cole

#awards #bask #death #i #like

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records. ↗

— Mos Def

#bottom #bottom line #companies #dream #got

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it. ↗

— Rita Dove

#believe #creativity #going #i #i believe

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves. ↗

— Kim Weston

#endeavors #fulfilling #individuals #make #need

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#else #endeavors #first #first time #idea

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#artistic #human #human actions #most #peace