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The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far read more
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
Anyone who contributes to the defense fund
of pornographers is a mental moonbeam.
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a read more
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, read more
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, read more
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from read more
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
