Batman to Joker

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The artist in me cries out for design. - Robert Frost

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. - Beilby Porteus

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. - August Rodin

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. - Francis Bacon

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. - James M Whistler

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals. - Lionel Trilling

They couldn't find the artist, so they hung the picture. - Unknown

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth. - Will Rogers

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust. - Oscar Wilde

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist. - George Carlin

Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman, then always be Batman. - Unknown

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine. - Marty Rubin

Pickup artist: An artist whose specialty is painting pictures of trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary. - Ernest Hemingway

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Picasso

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait. - Iris Murdoch

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist. - Jacques Lipchitz

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it. - Derek Jeter

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. - Dmitri Shostakovich

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains. - George R.R. Martin

Because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. - Marilyn Manson

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck

He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured. - Donald Trump

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. - Mary McCarthy

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F Kennedy

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. - Julia Cameron

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick. - Laurence Shames

An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush. - Sylvester Stallone

Lawyers have the singular distinction of being able to play the hero and villain at the same time. Depending on where you stand in a courthouse. - Lenox Mhlanga