Barbara Mandrell Quotes

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and it usually has. The cat may even be in it! I always put on stickers and beads and worry beads. You can get them from Greece, Israel, Palestine - from anywhere in the world.

When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

My mom was an artist, and she had this amazing ability to transform everything into something beautiful.

I love nail art and anything that sparkles and grabs attention.

Anything that's shiny, you can mix together. I love rhinestones with sequins, or baubles with fun gold metallics.

I really love to write about food, crafts, and fashion, so those details will always be a part of my books. I think they inject stories with color and flavor, providing a tactile experience.

I look at the feminine body as a piece of art.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

People know that I always do my hair and makeup, but I also love doing crafts. I love getting a blank canvas and painting something.

I can bend paper clips into the shapes of small animals.

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

The first thing you've got to do is know your craft, and then you can do something else with it.