Art Quote by John Kani Download Open image “When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.” — John Kani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist People People say Story Tell Writing
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it. — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter. — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know… — Keifer Thompson Copy Share Image
When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories. — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel a certain responsibility to write about difficult subject matter. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I've always written about other artists, or I write my thoughts down, but I've never written a story. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression. — John Kani Copy Share Image
I still remember the moment when my teacher, Mr. Budaza, walked into class and said, 'Today we are going to study 'Julius Caesar,' one… — John Kani Copy Share Image
I have never been attracted to television work. Even to appear in series and soapies. I have always appeared in theatre and major movies,… — John Kani Copy Share Image
Working with my friend Sir Antony Sher is truly one of the highlights of my career as an artist. — John Kani Copy Share Image
In Australia, I almost became a counsellor. At the end of each performance there would be a queue of sobbing people backstage. They all… — John Kani Copy Share Image
What does Macbeth want? What does Shakespeare want? What does Othello want? What does James want? What does Arthur Miller want when he wrote?… — John Kani Copy Share Image
Every time there is a movie that tells a South African story, it is done by someone who must be taught the right way… — John Kani Copy Share Image
In South Africa, it is different. When you are born not even your father knows what is going to happen in your life. — John Kani 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
