#artist

Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#inspiration #inspirational

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more. ↗

— A.E. Croft

#humorous #inspirational #writing #inspirational

A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions.  A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts.  A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#inspirational-quotes #poet #poetry #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#artists #big #big heart #comic #dwells

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice. ↗

— Tessa Emily Hall

#inspirational-quotes #peace #inspirational

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#artist #both #cannot #copy #ends

They were all brilliant. They wrote books and painted pictures, and if they ever stopped talking, which I was sure they would never do, they planned to change the world. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#bohemian #change-the-world #doing #talking #visonary

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#artist #cannot #fail #success

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#case #changed #control #days #deal

We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode. ↗

— Gary Wright

#countryside #during #english #english countryside #farm