503 quotes found
“The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more private and it's a b...”
“The art is more important than the artist. The work is more important than the person who does it. You must be prepared to sacrifice all the you could possibly have, be, or do; you must be willing ...”
“My writing, its my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.”
“Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.”
“The words of the Quran all seemed strangely familiar yet so unlike anything I had ever read before, he told us. He embraced Islam in 1977, and changed his name to Yusuf, the Arabic for Joseph. I id...”
“There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.”
“Where Norman Rockwell is the Artist for the man on the street, O'Henry is his author.”
“The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, or scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged!”
“I never understood, what a starving artist was until I became one.”
“I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend.”
“And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no ruin. He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough t...”
“What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit...”
“My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before -- or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it.”
“A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.”
“What I see is sacred.”
“A picture is a personal diary where only the artist knows the meaning.”
“The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.”
“The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.”
“Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one cr...”
“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as...”
