Art Quote by Anna Deavere Smith Download Open image “You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.” — Anna Deavere Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Flaws Intimacy Long Real Romance
“Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.” — Elizabeth Isaacs Copy Share Image
Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bight and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
As artists, it’s our job to delve into the uncomfortable, the difficult and the challenging. — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
As artists we are here to make you uncomfortable with the complexity of your reality. — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing. — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
Many people are afraid to talk about race because it's so emotionally loaded. We don't have the vocabulary to talk about it. Every day,… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
