Top 1200 Artists And Writers Quotes & Sayings

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

The creative treasure of Israel's artists and writers will survive forever.

Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style.

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was a kid there weren't.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists, lighting crew, etc.

Musicians are also interpretive artists and we are just as creative as painters and writers. We interpret in a way that expresses ourselves.

People who are artists professionally are not artists because they want to be artists; they have to be artists. They're compelled to get that creativity out and to share that with others.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.

I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.

I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.

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 art. Think of it as work.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

I think it's not an accident that you don't have that many Asian American women writers who are breaking out. I don't think it's an accident that you don't have that many Asian American writers, either women or men. I don't think that immigrants are encouraged to become artists. That's very gendered and racialized and ethnicized.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.

When we talk about contemporary art and contemporary artists, we usually imagine artists who are alive. But I feel very uncomfortable about placing a border between living artists and dead artists.

Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Our artists and writers should not be forced like soldiers to die on foreign soil or to return wounded and crawl famously into a hole.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

Vulnerability of artists is definitely what makes organizations like PEN necessary because, as I tried to argue, the actual work that writers and artists do has an ornery way of surviving. Particularly in this age of the internet, it is very easy for forbidden work to be found online somewhere if you know where to look. Artists themselves, however, are in increasing danger, and not just artists. The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work.

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

Revolt is designed to be a home for the next generation of musical artists, and we are investing in the artists and fans of the future. Revolt is for artists, by artists. This won't just be the P. Diddy network.

I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.

When we are artists, researchers, or writers, we choose what we do with our time, who we talk to. Of course we have commitments, but the amount of freedom we have with what to do or what to research is humongous compared to others.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

I love the idea of the literary salons in France where artists and writers would all come and talk and drink absinthe.

It's good to let go of control. That's probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.

We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic designers, the painters, the DJs, I mean everybody, the writers. We can't allow ourselves to feel as if we're not important in the equation when we are everything!

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.