#tis

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#europe #except #home #paris

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#artist #changes #focus #go #i

The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#capability #concrete #fantastic #go #reinforced

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#claim #ends #fanaticism #god #our

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry. ↗

— Leon Theremin

#artistry #conceived #conductor #create #effect

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. ↗

— Alfred Nobel

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The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#blood #from time to time #liberty #needs #patriots

But in the back of my mind I've always looked to the biggest-scale Hollywood movies. Because to me the most satisfying experience is of watching a movie, if it's done really well. And so that aspiration is always it for me, if I have the opportunity to do it. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#aspiration #back #because #done #experience

Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away? ↗

— Alexander Theroux

#artists #away #complete #completes #never

I made 'Batman' the way I made every other film, and I've done it to my own satisfaction - because the film, truly, is exactly the way I wanted it to be. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#because #done #every #exactly #film