Character Quote by Oscar Levant

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

— Auguste Rodin

“I was recently cautioned about some 'difficult' characters in a work-in-progress, and I was surprised at first to hear them labeled as such. On…

— Lisa Lutz

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else…

— Michael Sheen

It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there… How does…

— Brandon Lee

An empty canvas, apparently really empty, that says nothing and is without significance – almost dull, in fact – in reality, is crammed with…

— Wassily Kandinsky

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

— Phyllis Smith

The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further,…

— Marcel Proust

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

— John Lancaster Spalding

For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm more drawn…

— Ruth Wilson

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

— Marie Dressler