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Among the Indians, as among other nations, some people are born artists, but most are not. I am a born artist. I have as much interest in my people as any anthropologist, and I have studied our culture and lore. My aim is to reassemble the pieces of a once proud culture, and to show the dignity and bravery of my people.

An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.

And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.

And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

Bravery is not man's monopoly.

Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the action in the face of fear.

Bravery is often too sharp a spur.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

Bravery and Stupidity can often be mistaken for the other.

Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

Brave men are brave from the very first. [Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]

Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice.

Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.

Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us.

Come in, my dearFrom that harsh worldThat has rained elements of stoneUpon your tender face.Every soulShould receive a toast from usFor bravery!

Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one's purpose, and the sufficiency of one's own approval as a justification for one's own acts.

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

Dare to do something worthy of transportation and a prison, if you mean to be anybody.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Despereaux marveled at his own bravery. He admired his own defiance. And then, reader, he fainted.