#tis

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

#nature

It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. ↗

— Shanna LaFleur

#artists

From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#science

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist. ↗

— Larry Rivers

#artist #being #guess #i #idea

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#comes #constantly #creatures #existent #finding

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#greatest #heaven #hell #lie #loss

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

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#dreaming #mystery #real #dreams

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#baseball #lot #me #mean #more

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#equality #exercise #give #great #great souls