#art

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#enough #feels #find #his #look

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#art

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

#chair #feels #first #great #i

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid. ↗

— Sugar Ray Robinson

#done #i #morning #one morning #quit

I’m sorry about this,' she said to the dead woman, 'but I’m gonna need your clothes. ↗

— Jacques Antoine

#death #espionage-thriller #martial-arts #wuxia #art

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. ↗

— Nile Rodgers

#doing #emotions #enhances #i #like

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a powerful vehicle through which to address the public imagination. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#consumption #obscene #order #art

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual. ↗

— Narciso Rodriguez

#celebrate #culture #i #i do #i think

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. ↗

— Gioachino Rossini

#hour #lovely #moments #quarters #wagner

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#buck #chief #chief executive #department #executive