Art Quote by Matthew Collings

Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as…

— Paddy Chayefsky

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

— Win Butler

“written works do not produce fast reactions as pictures and sculptures and music do. it takes no effort to see or hear. but to…

— Anneli Rufus

“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom…

— Tom Robbins

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

— Marianne Moore

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

— William Faulkner

I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected…

— Rachel Kushner

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the…

— Chad Harbach

There are very few good writers about art, and you either get art-fashion writing with trendy views or you get very traditional writing. Occasionally,…

— Marc Quinn

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher