"An artist's saddest secrets are those that have……" — Willa Cather

"An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry."

— Willa Cather

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138 Quotes by Willa Cather

Willa Cather has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,…
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had…
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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