#tis

Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#cracked #despotism #nearly #up

I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#because #cameras #completely #gratification #guitar

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. ↗

— Auguste Renoir

#confidence #himself #his #listen #master

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#business #formed #guitar #learned #managing

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well. ↗

— Walter Reuther

#contribution #done #fellow #fellow men #greater

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#artist #everybody #feud #people #picking

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#acting #aesthetic #artist #consider #craft

I'm really happy with where I am, the movies in my life. Not satisfied, necessarily. But I won't put it on somebody else, blame anybody else for my position in the business. It's the choices I have made. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#anybody #blame #business #choices #else

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. ↗

— Anne Rice

#book #chance #first-person #greatest #how

Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it. ↗

— Denise Richards

#artist #asking #every #get #go