Art Quote by D. H. Lawrence

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually…

— Anonymous

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

— Ruth Asawa

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

— Walter Sickert

Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,

— George Herbert

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.

— William Wordsworth

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

— Loren Eiseley

To consider oneself different from ordinary men is wrong, but it is right to hope that one will not remain like ordinary men.

— Yoshida Shoin

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

— Tahir Shah

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with…

— T. S. Eliot

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence.

— William Shakespeare

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus…

— Philip Kapleau

I'm just an ordinary man. I get tired.

— Rakii Retondo