239 quotes found
“It can pay off, being a hack. Given the depraved state of American culture, a slick dude can make millions being a hack. But even if you succeed, you lose, because you've sold out your Muse, and yo...”
“The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.”
“There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.”
“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 have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in the club and the deep anxiety they betrayed to me, an anxiety that was not of the n...”
“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...”
“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 ar...”
“Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.”
“Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tendern...”
“Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.”
“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constru...”
“Miss Mapp moved towards the screen."What a delicious big screen," she said."Yes, but don't go behind it, Mapp," said Irene, "or you'll see my model undressing."Miss Mapp retreated from it precipita...”
“Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, s...”
“But sometimes, talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose name and voices you'l...”
“Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.”
“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 ...”
“I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps ...”
“Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.”
“You can never kill the spirit of an artist. They will always rewrite their resurrection and paint an eternal sunset with a blaze of orange that no one has seen before.”
“Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.”
