Art Quote by Jonathan Lethem

Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say,…

— Lewis Hyde

There's a shift of these young artists who have been brought up, educated, with these media around them. If you have a question, if…

— Gunnar Kvaran

To learn a vocation, you also have to learn the frauds it practices and the promises it breaks.

— Mason Cooley

Once you get into this great stream of history you can't get out. You can drown. Or you can be pulled ashore by the…

— Richard M. Nixon

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to…

— Charles Dickens

I'm a jazz musician by education and vocation, but I don't think jazz should [ dictate] what I want to do.

— Dave Douglas

I'm beat to the square, and square to the beat, and that's my vocation.

— William Everson

“If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.”

— Derek Jacobi

It is funny, and also a bit sad, that poets are so often asked to justify our vocation. There seems to be something vaguely…

— Matthew Zapruder

“On the other side of graduation was her actual life, the slow narrowing of possibilities that would catch her and freeze her in a…

— Ling Ma

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and…

— Therese of Lisieux

“The gift of singleness is more a vocation than an empowerment, although to be sure God is faithful in supporting those He calls.”

— John R.W. Stott