"The artist must possess the courageous soul that……" — Kate Chopin

"The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies"

— Kate Chopin

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69 Quotes by Kate Chopin

Kate Chopin has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of…
There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the…
Have you ever heard the earth breath?
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in…
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended,…
She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course…
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response…
So the storm passed and every one was happy.
A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

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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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