#artist

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#artist #away #energies #feeling #follows

I was just, like, not at all the office type; I was the artist type. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#i #just #like #office #type

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#artist #boss #get #gets #group

Sometimes in this country, we don't focus a lot on people's experience and their resume. Mitt Romney would be the most experienced executive to be nominated since 1952. The fundamental task for the next president is going to be fixing things, cleaning things up, being a turnaround artist, if you will. ↗

— Artur Davis

#being #cleaning #country #executive #experience

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #before #being #cries #defeated

I cannot belong to a nonprofit organization because when you receive grants, you have to make such great compromises with your artistic plans. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #belong #cannot #compromises #grants

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#company #dance #ever #expensive #furthers

I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens. ↗

— Georg Baselitz

#admire #artists #been #blonde #blonde hair

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#art #artist #contemporary #contemporary world #expression

I am not a black artist, I am an artist. ↗

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

#artist #black #i #i am