#les

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#confidence #consolation #doubt #granted #greater

How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#restlessness #art

Reckless capitalism kills black people. ↗

— Mos Def

#capitalism #kills #people #reckless

In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles. ↗

— DeWitt Henry Parker

#refuge #struggles #art

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#great #i #i do #less #masters

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#i #kong #leslie #other #people

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#brick #burden #businesses #cannot #communities

Uncollected sales taxes on Internet purchases cost the states more than $16 billion in 2001. ↗

— Bill Delahunt

#cost #internet #more #purchases #sales

Everything is really good and I'm blessed. ↗

— Kim Delaney

#everything #good #i #really

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#after #elementary #elementary school #gave #i