A Quote by Willa Cather

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

Willa Cather

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Artist Artistry His Saddest Secrets Those

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Willa Cather
American - Author
December 7, 1873 - April 24, 1947

Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

Leo Tolstoy

I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

LL Cool J

I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.

Halsey

Nowadays, if you're a great artist, you don't have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You're closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.

Russell Simmons

Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.

Truth Hurts

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop it, but a true artist has the ability to express his inner feelings naturally.

Fernando Bujones

I don't sleep. All night long I'm wide awake, thinking, Secrets, secrets, secrets. There are secrets in my past no one needs to know. Secrets in my present that might kill Kim and Chip. I don't want to take my secrets with me when I go. When I pass through the light, i want to be free of everything and everyone.

Julie Anne Peters

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

Richard Jefferies

I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

Frank Warren

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a very open and honest person, sometimes too honest for my own good.

Paul Kane

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Kim Edwards

The Philosophy of Princes is to dive into the Secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time.

George Herbert

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

H. L. Mencken

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

Osbert Sitwell

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts