Art Quote by James Lee Burke Download Open image “Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.” — James Lee Burke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Bad stuff Books Games Stuff
What you might consider a bad work can be of extreme interest to an artist in ways which are not about its being a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness… — Laurence Gartel Copy Share Image
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself. — Quentin Bell Copy Share Image
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it. — Abhay Deol Copy Share Image
Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think another way that you can really harm yourself as an artist is by buying into the mythology that it's really important. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them. — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable’s blood… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image