Carlisle Floyd Quotes

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Carlisle Floyd

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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

Natalie Zea
- People
- Job
- Day
I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?

A. Balasubramaniam
- World
- Why
- Truth
There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

Vicky McClure
- People
- Great
- School
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

T. S. Eliot
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.

Karl Marlantes
- Great
- American
- War
I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.

Dana Schutz
- Art
- Think
- Ideas