#tis

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#nothing #satisfies #them #unfortunate

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#any #art #artists #find #great

The more I thought of the McClure offer the less I thought of it. So I told him last night I was satisfied where I was, and that the $75 he offered me was no inducement. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#i #inducement #last #last night #less

One in 150 kids is autistic these days. The autism spectrum is growing. ↗

— Luke Ford

#autistic #days #growing #kids #spectrum

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. ↗

— Tom Ford

#artist #aware #because #creating #designer

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#artists #craziness #sanity #society #art

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#concerned #only #poet #poor #statistician

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#exist #instance #line #others #them

Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses. ↗

— David Zinczenko

#elitism #masses #more #new #overweight

I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#developing #i #important #inspired #nature