Accepting Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is…

— Jorge Luis Borges

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things…

— Jorge Luis Borges

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

— Gary Shteyngart

“No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist…

— Oscar Wilde

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to…

— David Mamet

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and…

— Freya Stark

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell…

— Anonymous

“To achieve works of meaning, a writer (or any artist) must cut into himself and leave his soul on the canvas, exposed for anyone…

— Mardra Sikora

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When…

— Albert Camus

There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how…

— Rachel Cusk

I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.

— Keith Jarrett