A Quote by Annie Dillard

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
American - Author
Born: April 30, 1945

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

Annie Dillard

There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

Annie Dillard

How can people think that artists seek a name? A name, like a face, is something you have when you're not alone. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world, lit or unlit as the light allows.

Annie Dillard

Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.

Justin Simien

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

Moderata Fonte

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

Jo Coudert

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the end of the world, the sense that the world is the end of everything that there is in the world, that the only thing there is in the world is the end of the world.

Italo Calvino

I lit up the Middle East when I lit up the world in the 1990s and gave people here something to be proud of.

Naseem Hamed

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, and when he discovers confirmation of it in the outside world he feels that it has been there all the time.

Kenneth Clark

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Oscar Wilde

Many contemporary painters feel that their landscapes come from within and are brought to the surface and given form as a result of various stimuli. The artist's internal world is waiting to be evoked by whatever means the artist finds most productive, and... this world is just as important as the outer, visible world.

Edward Betts

The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.

Guillermo del Toro

One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.

Deepak Chopra

... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.

Robert Musil

I would like to dedicate to the whole world a great message. It is a message from Kusama who has struggled to survive as a human being and as an artist, and whose life has been brightly lit and strengthened by her pursuit of truth.

Yayoi Kusama

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Margaret Mitchell

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