It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
Love trumps everything. Love's decision will not always be kind to your artistic life. — Vinita Hampton Wright Copy Share Image
The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life. — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
In the fullness of artistic life there is, and remains, and will always come back at times, that homesick longing for the… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm. — Shobana Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting. — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life. Frustrations and rewards exist at all levels on the path. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have… — Deborah Solomon Copy Share Image
Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry,"… — Pablo Casals according to Eric Siblin Copy Share Image
The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
“Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?...To give… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins... We should question, speak out and… — Mark A. Brennan Copy Share Image
“Advancing towards a person’s dreams with confidence enables a person to move beyond restrictive boundaries and meet with uncommon success. Liberated from… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
“What I’m after, above all, is a sense of divine inspiration that touches the very core of my being. That lives throughout… — Sarah Loven Copy Share Image
“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I don't know that I had a sense that there was such a thing as "the poetry world" in the 1960s and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“As a young man, he was already rather pompous and full of himself, concerned with what he would write and with his… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“There are all sorts of families," Tom's grandmother had remarked, and over the following few weeks Tom became part of the Casson… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
“I understood where I had come from: from a dreary tangle of sadness and pretense, of longing, absurdity, inferiority and provincial pomposity,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“This is that CONSOLATION DES ARTS which is the key-note of Gautier’s poetry, the secret of modern life foreshadowed - as indeed… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
My mom moved to New York City alone with a kid on each hip to try to live an authentic artistic life. — Sarah Paulson Copy Share Image
Prince had always told us he just wanted to get through this thing called life. But now that his own physical life… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
I go through every single emotion. My artistic life will likely be shorter than it could be because everything is for real… — Kristine Opolais Copy Share Image