"I am, as they say, the classic starving…" — Cheryl Strayed

"I am, as they say, the classic starving artist."

— Cheryl Strayed

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137 Quotes by Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed has 137 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing…
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long…
You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation…
I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.
I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprising of all,…
It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so…
The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.
Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a…
What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?…
A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about…
The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

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More Artist Quotes

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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… — 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… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — 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… — 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… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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