Amy Winehouse Quotes

I'm planning my most ambitious tattoo yet. You can never have enough tats.
Amy Winehouse

I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.
Amy Winehouse

I knew I could sing but I always thought everyone could sing, that everyone was born with a singing voice. Even when I was getting interest from singing, I just thought 'what about all these guys?' Yes, I can sing, I have a good voice but there's so many people that can and do.
Amy Winehouse

About Christina Aguilera: “She’s a talented girl — but you couldn’t really see it until she was wearing those chaps with her ninny hanging out.”
Amy Winehouse

"A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is."
Amy Winehouse, on eating disorders

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write ...There was nothing that I could listen to at the time. Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff.
Amy Winehouse






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We're not planning a honeymoon. Every day is a honeymoon – I've married the best man in the world.
Amy Winehouse

I like pin-up girls. I’m more of a boy than a girl. I’m not a lesbian, though — not before a sambuca anyway.
Amy Winehouse, about her tattoos

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.
Amy Winehouse

Over het model Jordan: “She’s hilarious. She’s like our Pammy; except Pammy is stunning and she’s a poor man’s Pammy.”
Amy Winehouse

'Look, I'm a London Jewish girl and I like a drink, but I'm no alcoholic. They really did try to make me go to rehab. I went- briefly. They asked me if I was in denial and I said - "No, I'm in love." Then I said, "Nice to meet you, bye."
Amy Winehouse

No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.
Amy Winehouse

About the Beckhams: ''Victoria was not put on this earth to sing. Posh Spice needs to give up. She has three beautiful children and so much money, why doesn’t she do charity? She could do so much good”. --- “He’s David Beckham. He’s a genius. So what if he f**** 20 other women? She can never leave him ’cos no one would like her and she’d just be forgotten about. Bang. No one cares.”
Amy Winehouse

I'll beat up Blake when I'm drunk. I don't think I have ever bruised him, but I do have my way. If he says one thing I don't like then I'll chin him.
Amy Winehouse

People like to have sex with people. I don’t begrudge my dad just because he has a penis.
Amy Winehouse

Salvador Dali Quotes

You know the worst thing is freedom. Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity.
Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali




At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dali

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.
Salvador Dali

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Salvador Dali

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador Dali

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador Dali

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Salvador Dali

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
Salvador Dali

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.
Salvador Dali

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali

When the creations of a genius collide with the mind of a layman, and produce an empty sound, there is little doubt as to which is at fault.
Salvador Dali

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life.
Salvador Dali

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Salvador Dali

When I paint, the sea roars. The others splash about in the bath.
Salvador Dali

One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.
Salvador Dali

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
Salvador Dali

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali


Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
Salvador Dali

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Salvador Dali

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums. Salvador Dali

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning. Salvador Dali Let my enemies devour each other. Salvador Dali Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. Salvador Dali

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. Salvador Dali

Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.
Vincent Van Gogh

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'
Vincent Van Gogh


I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent Van Gogh

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent Van Gogh

An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh


I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that. But have I set my heart on my work being a success? A thousand times no. I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist's work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.
Vincent Van Gogh


I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.
Vincent Van Gogh

I certainly hope to sell in the course of time, but I think I shall be able to influence it most effectively by working steadily on, and that at the present moment making desperate efforts to force the work I am doing now upon the public would be pretty useless.
Vincent Van Gogh

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Vincent Van Gogh

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Vincent Van Gogh


If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies; if the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.
Vincent Van Gogh

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh


You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.
Vincent Van Gogh