#artist

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion. ↗

— Samantha Mumba

#american #around #artists #attitude #bit

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#bored #creative #disappointed #dynamic #every

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. ↗

— Walter Murch

#20th century #age #artistic #became #century

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

#burden #dances #feeling #his #idea

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#artistic #been #commercial #define #fortunate

Even a true artist does not always produce art. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#always #artist #does #even #produce

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#both #developed #gift #god-given #talent

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#because #detested #enemy #reviewer #singularly

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. ↗