Actors Quote by Charlotte Saunders Cushman

In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women;…

— Honore de Balzac

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain…

— Arnold Bennett

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

— Omari Hardwick

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

— Ariel Gore

Art must touch our lives, our fears and cares – evoke our dreams and give hope to the darkness.

— Frederick Hart

“Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind…

— Alain de Botton

“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.”

— Ivan Fernandez

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide…

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose…

— Sue Halpern

“And underneath everything, whatever phase the world has gone into, there must be artists, there must be musicians, there must be writers. They are…

— Jillian Sullivan

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our…

— Henry James