Artistic Substance Quotes & Sayings

My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice. — Lucy Lawless

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends
and I from Legends created only the ordinary! — Peter Shaffer

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine. — Tony Stewart

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it. — Vince Gilligan

Promise me, you will love me forever. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Damien Hirst is acceptable because he's a brand. It's like buying a Porche. Hardline conservatives will never accept it, others think it's a massive waste of money but most will just shrug and move on — Qatar Cultural Official

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?' — Anna Kendrick

What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later ... They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced. — Robert M. Pirsig

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know. — Zig Ziglar

The cold impassive stars didn't bother him so much as the gaps between them did. — Laird Barron

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues. — Aesop

Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind. — Mozzie White Collar

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of heart, whether they achieve wide recognition or not. Cultivating such a beautiful mind is a very worthy effort. Culture and art are not just decorations. They are not just accessories. What matters is whether culture enriches the essential substance of our lives. — Daisaku Ikeda

It's a five pots of liquid sleep kind of morning. — Michelle M. Pillow

Generations cometh and generations passeth, but the earth abideth forever. While successive generations live and die, and all things change, man can never rest until death claims us. I choose to use my time alone to contemplate human existence, probe the human condition, and trace what it means to be one man in our modern world. There can be no profit from my labor, no lasting yield realized from this laborious and painful sojourn. We will leave everything behind. The earth shall dissolve all of our acquisitions and obliterate all traces of our petty affections. Passage of time shall alter, not annihilate the products of any artistic labors. The substance of our artistic enterprises shall continue forward in a renewed and redefined state. — Kilroy J. Oldster

My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions. — Howard Dean

Don't ever grow up.
Don't become a bore. — Sophia Amoruso

I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole. — David Letterman