Art Quote by Donal Henahan

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least…

— Erik Erikson

“Everyone is an autobiographer nowadays, it’s like everyone is actively writing their own biography all the time,”

— James Wallman

“Artists are dishonest creatures really. They foist their version of reality upon us while making it all up. Writers, painters, musicians, auteurs—they’re all the…

— Anonymous

“An author is an artist who paints a picture in the imagination of the reader.”

— Darrell Case

“A copywriter is a combination of a professional advertising engineer and a salesman.”

— Jason Goldberg

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

— Marianne Moore

“There are many self-proclaimed “screenwriting gurus”—though how you get to be a “guru” of something you’ve never actually done is beyond us. Screenplays are…

— Thomas Lennon

“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has…

— Arthur Miller

“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a writer, one…

— Anonymous

“A writer who makes serious money is never taken seriously. Writers and artists are expected to suffer poverty and privation for their art; it’s…

— Jessica Zafra

“What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood that’s been…

— H.N. Sieverding

Re-creative artists are investigators.

— William Boughton