Art Quote by Peter Schjeldahl

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

— Matthew Collings

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

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you…

— Peter Schjeldahl

You can't expect somebody to speak out on a certain subject. If they want to say something about it, then say something about it.…

— Denzel Curry

I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.

— Bebe Rexha

The problem of making artists talk about their work is that when they're making their work the left-brain is shut off. So if you…

— Jonathan Santlofer

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

— Alfred Lansing

If I ever meet a writer or a painter, I don't presuppose that they are like the work they are presenting.

— PJ Harvey

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

— Jacob Weisberg

When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.

— John Kani