Creative work Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“ 'Paint only what you see,' his hero Millet had admonished. 'Imagination is a burden to a painter,' Auguste Renoir had told him. 'Painters…

— Christopher Moore

After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism…

— Jonathan Culler

“Rainer Maria Rilke sacrificed everything For his art he dedicated himself To the Great Work I admired his single-mindedness All through my twenties I…

— Edward Hirsch

It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on…

— Cheryl Strayed

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

“Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer…

— Tobias Wolff

“He connected with the storytelling in the manuscript painting, he said, because it was clear to him that this artist, working hundreds of years…

— Christian Madsbjerg

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

“It is the importance of this quality of generosity in fiction that requires a measure of childishness in the writer. People who have strong…

— John Gardner

My teachers always said, "You're very talented, but don't set your heart on art. You're only a girl." I was inspired by Virginia Woolf…

— Carolee Schneemann

“Everything in life, except her kids, made her impatient. She had tried to do a million things. She'd wanted to be a documentary filmmaker…

— Miriam Toews

“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once…

— John Hawkes