"What I say to an artist is, 'When…" — Joyce Cary

"What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint."

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48 Quotes by Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary has 48 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is…
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use…
It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only…
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would…
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
The most effective teacher will always be biased, for the chief force in teaching is confidence and enthusiasm.
Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks…
I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea…
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a…
A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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