Career Quote by Lana Del Rey

In my teaching, I try to expose my students to the widest range of aesthetic possibilities, so I'll offer them stories from Anton Chekhov…

— Chang-Rae Lee

The only hope I had was when (in his youth)I saw one day a photograph of a sculpture by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, a German sculptor…

— Joseph Beuys

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

— Nigel Dennis

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

— George Grosz

Drawing and visual arts was kinda my first passion going all the way back to when I was a kid. I always felt like…

— Aesop Rock

It's an amazing feeling to feel that I was able to get a personal connection to the work, through the work of it. But…

— Azazel Jacobs

That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible,…

— Jess Row

Art was something that I was really interested in, probably more so than writing or anything else.

— Robert Barry

I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it…

— Mary Oliver

In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

— Danielle Steel

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could…

— Patti Smith

I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist -…

— Haris Pasovic