I've been called many names like perfectionist, di... -Barbra Streisand

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

Barbra Streisand , Actress
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Barbra Streisand is an iconic actress, singer, and filmmaker. With her exceptional talent, powerful voice, and creative vision, she has made significant contributions to the world of entertainment, earning numerous awards and accolades and leaving a lasting impact on music, film, and popular culture.

Barbra Streisand Quotes to Explore

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia....
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?...
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror....
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it....
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all....
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?...
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would b...
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?...
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work....
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, ...

Art Quotes to Explore

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...