Artistic Skills Quotes

#1. I especially love all the instruments of art: inks, pens, paintbrushes, watercolors and oils, fine papers and canvases, and although I love to mess around with these tools and objects, I have minimal artistic skills.

Sharon Creech

#2. Fashion is everything that goes out of fashion.

Jean Cocteau

#3. No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

#4. Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

Philip Yancey

#5. In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.

Linda Ronstadt

#6. With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

Iain Glen

#7. The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

August Bournonville

#8. I'm a Pele fan from way back when I was a kid, and then there was always this thing later about Pele and Maradona. I was young and impressionable as a kid but it was always Pele for me.

Alex Ferguson

#9. Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn't work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.

Sharon Weil

#10. I'm alone in a world full of companionship.

Anonymous

#11. I am a nobody until I make somebody worthy for everybody.

Amit Abraham

#12. At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.

Michael Crichton

#13. Everybody should have a shelter dog. It's good for the soul.

Paul Shaffer

#14. Edie was a gorgeous, avant-garde girl back in the day when that could be a full-time occupation, but in marriage she slowly became less wild. To Manny's great disappointment, though, her domestic skills didn't rise to the fore as her sexual and artistic ones receded.

Meg Wolitzer

#15. It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.

E.W. Howe

#16. The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

Brian Friel

#17. Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.

David Cronenberg

#18. For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes prominent with antimony. To them, I suppose, the artistic skill of God is displeasing!

Tertullian

#19. I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.

Ali Larijani

#20. Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

Diane Ackerman

#21. In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.

Alfred Delp

#22. Well, I definitely have an artistic side to me as well. I write, I act, I draw. With that artistic mind I have, a lot of doors have opened for me. I can try to pursue, like - if it's something using my writing skills, maybe a book. Or maybe if it's my drawing skills, some clothing designs.

Vinny Guadagnino

#23. The extraordinary thing about the record industry is how success can take off without warning.

Richard Branson

#24. I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.

Brandon Stanton