Acquired Deformities

Famous quotes containing the words acquired and/or deformities:

    “Before I put a brush to canvas, I question, “Is this mine?... Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man?”... I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.”
    —Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986)

    “An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)