#artists

Why is it every other person you meet says they're an artist? A real artist doesn't need to gas on about it, he doesn't have time. He does his work and sweats it out in silence, and no one can help him at all. ↗

— Paula McLain

#life

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas. ↗

— Norman Granz

#artists #certain #easier #i #made

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life

நோயாளியும், பித்தனும், ஞானியும், கலைஞனும் இரவில் தூங்குவதில்லை.. ↗

— Jeyamohan

#life

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writers-on-writing #life

The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. ↗

— Margaret Bourke-White

#tranquility #women-artists #life

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss lighting cigarettes. I like the whole thing about it, to me it turns into the artist’s life, and now people like Bloomberg have made animals out of smokers, and they think that if they stop smoking everyone will live forever. ↗

— David Lynch

#cigarettes #fire #live-forever #quit-smoking #quitting

The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#artist #artistic-endeavor #artistic-passion #artists-life #art

Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#artists #colossal #creative #extraordinary #great

And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point. ↗

— Michael Bay

#crew #fans #growing #growing up #having