Art Quote by Ann Patchett

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

— Susan Sontag

It's hard to make a living as an artist, period.

— Sahara Davenport

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter.

— Brian Aldiss

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

— Luc Delahaye

I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such…

— Dana Spiotta

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

— Georges Simenon

I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you…

— John Cooper Clarke

Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing.

— Heather Sellers

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art,

— Daniel Alarcon

They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I…

— George Sutherland

I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my…

— Len Wein