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Artist Quotes by William Faulkner
- The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
- The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for…
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
- An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
- People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a…
- The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be…
- The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all…
- By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material…
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to…
- All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.…
- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later,…
- An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
- The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old…
- Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no…
- The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu