Acquire Quote by Ayn Rand

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on…

— Alexander Smith

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

— Elia Kazan

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

— Julian Barnes

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he…

— Giuseppe Verdi

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He…

— Robert Henri

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at…

— Raymond Chandler

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he…

— Raymond Carver

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

— Samuel Butler

An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.

— Gerald Brommer

And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound.…

— Plato

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.

— Julia Marlowe