Quotes About Integrity

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce.

Apologies are the art of spiritual housekeeping. They help to put and keep our lives in order.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

There is no purity with regards to the marketplace and art, I believe.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

Anytime you have to sacrifice your art, or integrity, it's a bad deal, no matter what they're offering.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

What e'er thou art, act well thy part.

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living".

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

Notice I did not say what people can do--what we can do is merely a consequence of what we can be.

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

Words mean nothingActions are everythingExpect nothingAppreciate everything

A piece of art is part of its creator, you cannot split them apart. You cannot like one and dislike another.

What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes.

The cheap no matter how charming how immediate does not wear so well. It has a way of telling its whole story the first time through.

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers.

Education is the art of making man ethical.