239 quotes found
“Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of te...”
“When I discovered music — when I discovered the craft of shaping a song — my being fell into place.”
“In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entertainments of many kinds would stop over in those days for a single performance in Jackson's Centur...”
“I suppose the artists invented the firm breasts they put on women, and that in reality all women had flabby ones.”
“Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”
“I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”
“He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!”
“The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer”
“Catching creativity is like catching butterflies – fast-flying, bright-colored sparks darting here and there, it requires quick wits, good eyes and desire to net them. And once you have them, you n...”
“He doesn’t see his path clearly, but also doesn’t consider this absolutely necessary; he strikes out in some direction or other, and one thing leads to the next. All paths lead to lives of some sor...”
“Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?”
“He wanted to go home and lock his door and sleep. He was tired of the troubles of real people. He wanted to get back to the people he was inventing, whose troubles he could bear.”
“The artists are the most powerful ones, the creators, first are the painters, working without words, second are the music composers, and third are the writers.”
“Apparently, now, though, we writers and artists are not allowed to give offence. We must not question, criticise or insult the other, for fear of being hounded and murdered. These days a writer wit...”
“There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.”
“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.”
“The real reason why so many artists now take to politics, ‘commitment’ and so on is that they are rushing into a discipline, any discipline at all, which will save them from the poison of the word ...”
“I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.”
“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if no...”
“Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make ...”
