Quotes About Integrity

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

I believe that working independently will give artists the ability to communicate the full extent of their art and not just a piece of it that might sell.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.

I'd prostitute my talents if it would further my cause, steal if there was no way out, killing my friends or anyone else if it would help my art.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

There will be as much deceit and criminality in the world as there is lack of art.

All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.

I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.

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

It's an extreme to go from an artist like myself to a commercial artist with art directors looking over your shoulder, or any other knucklehead telling you what your art should look like.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.

Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.