Art(212)

"My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph."
Richard Avedon

"Acting is a matter of giving away secrets."
Ellen Barkin

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."
Charles Baudelaire

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
Cecil Beaton

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
Henry Ward Beecher

"Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art."
Ambrose Bierce

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
Ambrose Bierce

"Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words."
Josh Billings

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
Josh Billings

"Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in."
Erma Bombeck