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The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
— Michael Cunningham
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
— William Faulkner
Artists don't often know much about writing ... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
— Matthew Collings
A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great.
— Peter Schjeldahl
That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself.
— Frank McCourt
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To get over artist's block, make shitty art.
— Dave Horowitz
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
It happens to all writers, all artists, they can live beyond their best work and carry on with disappointment and mediocrity.
— Chloe Thurlow
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.
— Jyrki Vainonen
I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
— Jim Morrison
Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.
— Eric Kandel
Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
— Harry Harrison
Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
— Anthony Browne
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced
— Agatha Christie
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
— Jonathan Lethem
I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.
— Ellen Forney
When one would ask most modern artists, poets, writers and other status quo fueled semi-intellectuals who Machiavelli was - was that an opera singer?
— Martijn Benders
I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.
— M. Ward
We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
— Christopher Bollen
Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.
— Barbara Case Speers
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
— Aberjhani
Art symbolizes our perfect ability in the matter of enriching the reality!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You don't make art out of good intentions.
— Gustave Flaubert
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.
— Arthur Holitscher
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
— Edna Longley
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
— Eva Zeisel
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
— Christopher Bollen
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.
— Ariel Gore
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple - to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
— Craig Raine
Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.
— Jim Steranko
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
— Len Wein
Every artist takes their final work to the grave.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
— Gustave Flaubert
Some of our finest writers, organizers, artists, and scholars in the 60s as well as today, have been lesbian and gay, and history will bear me out.
— Audre Lorde
If you dig deep and keep peeling the onion, artists and freelance writers are the leaders in society - the people who start to get new ideas out.
— Allan Savory
The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
— Morgan Freeman
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
— Robert McKee
And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.
— Charles Bukowski
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
— Julia Cameron
The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.
— Mark W. Boyer
The hack is like a politician who consults the polls before he takes a position. He's a demagogue. He panders.
— Steven Pressfield
Bedtime is daytime,
and we come into bloom
after midnight. — Lenore Kandel
and we come into bloom
after midnight. — Lenore Kandel
I made her promise to write, but artists are artists, not writers. She did send postcards, though: a lot of postcards - sometimes
— Anita Diamant
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
— Gustave Flaubert