Alexander McQueen
Fashion Designer
"For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium."
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Geeta Iyengar
Yoga Teacher
"When this body has been so magnificently and artistically created by God, it is only fitting that we should maintain it in good health and harmony by the most excellent and artistic science of Yoga."
John Oliver
Comedian
"The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked."
Robert Frost
Poet
"The artist in me cries out for design."
Elbert Hubbard
Writer, Publisher
"You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence."
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"To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me."
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"I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."
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"I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves."
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"I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something."
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"Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas."
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"Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it."
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"Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer."
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"The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments"
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"Dining is and always was a great artistic opportunity."
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"The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else."
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"Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege."
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"I'm not going to compromise my artistic integrity."
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"There is no higher form of artistic expression then film"
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"What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful."
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"Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic."
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"Keep to yourself the final touches of your art."
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"It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you."
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"An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries."
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"I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me."
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"Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic."
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