Age Quote by Salman Rushdie

There are dangers for an artist in any academic environment. Academia rewards people who know their own minds and have developed an ironclad confidence…

— Christian Wiman

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people…

— Salman Rushdie

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison…

— Kurt Vonnegut

A lot of artists are much more concerned about how their work is used and how it's disseminated. That, to artists, is as important…

— Hilary Rosen

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

Part of the blame can be put at the artists' door, too - no question. But I see our involvement more as a consequence.…

— Maurizio Cattelan

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase…

— Salman Rushdie

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

— JR

I don't suspect that in many instances the artists who are dedicated in that fashion to the progress of that community are as well…

— Gil Scott-Heron

We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making…

— John Paul Caponigro

I don't see many artists who are not trying to bring their work to the public - -to the contrary I see artists nearly…

— Sally Mann

The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to…

— Anne Lamott