#tis

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ↗

— Stanley Marcus

#customers #people #statistics

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul. ↗

— Teena Marie

#been #black #day #end #end of the day

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#any #common #desirable #goods #human

There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else comes with it. ↗

— Garry Marshall

#better #comes #else #everything #feel

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. ↗

— Agnes Martin

#artist #artwork #concern #exactly #experience

Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now? ↗

— Douglas Adams

#humor #science-fiction #social-commentary #thumb #towel

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex

Look, half the men who signed the Declaration of Independence were either in debt or bankrupt. The remaining half, most of them lost all their possessions. The only reason Monticello didn't get burned to the ground was that the British patrol missed the road. ↗

— Eric Massa

#british #burned #debt #declaration #either

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#egg #hatched #kind #religion #wars

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing it he can overcome it. Everything is grist to his mill. ... The artist is the only free man. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #art