William Shakespeare Quotes

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

William Shakespeare

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Art
  • Artists
  • Voices

• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Unnecessary

• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Elegance

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Up
  • Important
  • Art

• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Work
  • Art
  • Business

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • True
  • Religion

• At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Men
  • Art
  • Man

• Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Art
  • You
  • Mood

• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Work
  • Music
  • Art

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Hand

• I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Art
  • Uncomfortable

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Art
  • Free

• Before I was a cosplayer, I was a fan artist. I would draw my favorite characters and sell the pieces at art auctions. But once I discovered cosplay, it was like, 'I don't have to draw my favorite characters, I can become my favorite characters.'

  

  Yaya Han
  • Art
  • Like
  • Artist

• The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Art
  • House

• I'm almost mentally incapable of drawing a distinction between art I make for the masses, or my clients, and that I make for myself. It all flows from what gets me off, ultimately. It's my viewpoint, and I don't particularly care if it gets seen by gallery patrons, magazine readers, internet audiences, or my friends, as long as it gets seen.

  

  Clayton James Cubitt
  • Long
  • Art
  • Care

• Fear nothing; attack everything.

  

  Eric Berry
  • Fear

• Designers and musicians are primed to keep thinking forward. Once an album or collection launches, you can only think about doing the next one.

  

  Chris Benz
  • Thinking

• But people who do not know me are surprised to see me as a real person I guess.

  

  Christine Flores
  • People
  • Real

• Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Blood
  • Insult