Books Quote by Henry Miller

It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able…

— Henry Miller

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

— Louise DeSalvo

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

— Henry Miller

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

— Roma Downey

My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.

— Sufjan Stevens

“I remember the first time I saw my favorite painting, how its fragile beauty caught my breath. And I thought if the artist had…

— Lang Leav

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

— Thomas Mann

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

— Jacques-Louis David

Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow…

— John F. Kennedy

I think it's quite obvious my work is made by a woman, because I have never wanted to make anything that is not ephemeral.…

— Cornelia Parker

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you…

— K'naan