#artist

La nuit appartient aux audacieux, aux fous et aux artistes, qui sont souvent les mêmes. ↗

— Anne Fortier

#inspirational

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit... ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#inspiration #life #spirit #home

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#bank-account #depression #funny #humorous #inspiration

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

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

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

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. ↗

— Steve Albini

#betrays #him #his #hubris #i

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#artist #case #first #going #loyalty