Willa Cather Quotes

An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Work
  • Me
  • Artist

• I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Over

• I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Know
  • Always
  • Artist

• I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Artist

• The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Done
  • Single
  • Artist

• I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Think
  • You
  • Artist

• As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Artist
  • Responsible

• No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Government
  • Artist
  • Should

• Being my dad's daughter has allowed me to do a lot of things that maybe another artist might not be able to do or wouldn't be necessarily embraced doing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Artist

• We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Picture

• My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Age
  • Artist
  • Young

• As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Independent

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Day
  • Artist
  • Everyday

• No one can keep a secret better than a child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Child
  • Better
  • Secret

• It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Song
  • Artist

• ..... if we were talking to you on your first day of physical life experience, we would say to you, "Welcome to Planet Earth. There is nothing that you cannot be, or do, or have. You are a magnificent creator. And you are here by your powerful and deliberate wanting to be here. Go forth, giving thought to what you are wanting, attracting life experience to help you decide what you want and once you have decided, giving thought only unto that"

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Experience
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• The urge at that moment to reach across and touch Willow--to link his fingers through hers as she rested her hand on her thigh, or stroke her bright hair back from her temple--was almost overpowering. He crossed his arms over his chest. "Yep, definitely time for a coffee break," he said, closing his eyes. "You see right through me.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Time
  • She
  • Eyes

• You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.

  

  Vance Packard
  • You
  • Son
  • Millionaire

• The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Black
  • Reason
  • Slave

• An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Artist
  • Secret
  • Artistry