Amount Quote by Clive Barker

Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it…

— Barry Hannah

If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because there is zero guarantee that you'll get…

— Richard Lewis

The job of art is to turn time into things.

— Robert Genn

If you're in the arts, or anything that requires great discipline, the only way to achieve it is to put in the hours.

— Arlene Phillips

I don't have a set schedule to work on poetry at any given time, at the same time every day, but I do try…

— Edward Hirsch

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours…

— Martha Wainwright

Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by day; but…

— Hilary Mantel

Research suggests that someone who is constantly drawing on their creative abilities can, on average, be productive for no more than six hours a…

— Rutger Bregman

Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that…

— Bill Viola

“Intellectual work sometimes, spiritual work certainly, artistic work always — these are forces that fall within its grasp, forces that must travel beyond the…

— Mary Oliver

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely…

— Valerie Miner

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

— Georges Simenon