Famous quotes containing the words female, artist and/or national:
“... the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)