Gradual Quote by John Keats

There is nothing great in the world that does not owe its origin to the creative ability of an individual man.

— Adolf Hitler

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

— Robert Schumann

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

— Damian Lewis

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

— David Hume

Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how…

— Barry Levinson

Creative power is mightier than its possessor.

— Anonymous

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

— George C. Wolfe

No performance is worth loss of geniality. 'Tis a cruel price we pay for certain fancy goods called fine arts and philosophy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

— Willa Cather

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.

— Robert Schumann

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

— Albert Camus

There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.

— W. Somerset Maugham