A Quote by Osamu Dazai

It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.

Osamu Dazai

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Osamu Dazai
Japanese - Author
June 19, 1909 - June 13, 1948

I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer.

Lucy R. Lippard

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Josh Billings

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

W. Somerset Maugham

Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.

Keegan-Michael Key

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.

Gustave Flaubert

There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

Lajos Kossuth

I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.

Elsa Maxwell

What's cool about Spider-Man is that it's everybody - anyone, you put on the suit, anyone believes that you're Spider-Man. That's what's charming about the character. He's anyone. He's a huge nerd that ends up being this huge superhero.

Jake Epstein

It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

Anish Kapoor

A man's worth can be judged through those who dislike him.

Bill Loguidice

Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

Henry Fuseli

I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.

Jack White

I have a problem with the term 'leading man.' It's so limiting; it involves not upsetting anyone. Obviously, we have anti-heroes now, but if we're talking about the two tropes - character actor and leading man - I would so rather be a character actor. That's why I have a career.

Jimmi Simpson

Golf puts a man's character on the anvil and his richest qualities - patience, poise, restraint - to the flame.

Billy Casper

That's what everyone should do with their lives: stand up for what they believe in or try to do some good in the world. I don't think artists have a greater responsibility than anyone else.

Tracy Chapman

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