Art Quote by John le Carré Download Open image ““An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:”” — John le Carré ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
“An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Artists are out of step with the world. Yet their works can give us a clearer picture of who we are.” — Ivan Fernandez Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it’s his business to face it. He hasn’t got the right to sidestep it like that. Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist—the only thing he’s good for—is to take these handfuls of confusion and… — Katherine Ann Porter Copy Share
“No genuine artist views himself as superior in essence to others.” — Laurence G. Boldt Copy Share Image
“I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and… — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of thereformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The creation of George Smiley, the retired spy recalled to hunt for just such a high-ranking mole in 'Tinker, Tailor,' was extremely personal. I… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“You're history, Donohue. You think countries run the fucking world! Go back to fucking Sunday school. It's 'God save our multinational' they're singing these… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The trouble is, when professional spies go out of their way to make a definitive statement about one of their own, the public tends… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
“Middle children weep longer than their brothers and sisters. Over her mother’s shoulder, stilling her pains and her injured pride, Jackie Lacon watched the… — John le Carré 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
