#tis

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#arts #belong #find #generation #i

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

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant. ↗

— Mario Batali

#continuously #eat #else #finding #fulfillment

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists. ↗

— Kathleen Battle

#because #both #christopher #experiences #gifted

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#always #appear #appetite #centuries #even

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#artist #express #first #man #men