Quotes tagged ‘Artists’

“The people I’m drawn to sleep in nests of dirty clothes.”

— Cat Marnell, nymag.com

“It is mostly with your blood, Gala, that I paint my pictures”

— Salvador Dalí, amazon.com

“I support the arts and I'm a really good friend.”

— Ari Graynor, Katie, amazon.com

“The only people who can afford to be artists in New York are rich.”

— Mickey Sumner, Sophie, amazon.com

“McAllister: 'You take a big risk by encouraging them to be artists, John. When they realize they're not Rembrandts, Shakespeares or Mozarts, they'll hate you for it.' Keating: 'We're not talking artists George, we're talking free thinkers.' McAllister: 'Free thinkers at seventeen?' Keating: 'Funny,…”

— Robin Williams, Leon Pownall, John Keating, George McAllister, amazon.com

“Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.”

— Toni Morrison, amazon.com

“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue—that I had to do the job myself.”

— Anaïs Nin, thoughtcatalog.com

“No satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

— Martha Graham, amazon.com

“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art.”

— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com

“This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.”

— Sarah Ruhl, amazon.com

“I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.”

— Jean Cocteau, amazon.com