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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.


Elia Kazan

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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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ALEX NORTH I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they...
MARTIN LANDAU Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f...
ETHEL WATERS I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very ...
MARTIN LANDAU An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
ANDY WARHOL They ask me all the time what an artist is. A painter is someone who paints what is in front of him,...
HAGOP NAJARIAN I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do ...
RICK RUBIN When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don't, someone else will, you know what...
LARRY GAGOSIAN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdin...
DAVID BLAINE I allegedly am an outsider writer, so I write from the perspective of somebody who doesn't compl...
RABIH ALAMEDDINE I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves.
PETER BEARD I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I ...
FETTY WAP An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
DYLAN THOMAS Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artis...
RUBY ROSE A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
JACK DEMPSEY I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist w...
RYAN MCGINLEY A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
RICHARD BACH When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly...
BERTRAND RUSSELL An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
HENRY MILLER An artist is always alone / if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
HENRY MILLER When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... I don't see myself as an artist, as a writer. The sort of writing that I do, which is popular fi...
FIONA MCINTOSH When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...to discover and reveal what is unsuspect...
H W LEGGETT I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he...
MOHSIN HAMID When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.
LOUISE LIPPINCOTT What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI Life is an audition.
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TOM PAULIN I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it'...
M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISP When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
LAURIE HELGOE She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else adm...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
MARIANNE MOORE I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal...
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MARAT SAFIN I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.
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GAVIN ROSSDALE An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo...
SETH GODIN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
LAURA NYRO An artist sees that which does not yet exist. He or she imagines a future others cannot perceive. Th...
DAVID EBERSHOFF I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first;...
JEMIMA KIRKE I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You a...
MICKALENE THOMAS Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
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GERHARD RICHTER I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fi...
LARRY KRAMER Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in th...
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ANNA MOUGLALIS Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he&...
LARRY NIVEN I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don...
JOHN LEGUIZAMO What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - an...
MARC JACOBS Lack of etiquette and manners is a huge turn off. Men who don't behave decently are irritating. ...
SHRADDHA KAPOOR A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. T...
KELSEA BALLERINI When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.
SHANNON L. ALDER Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
EARL WILSON Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things loo...
AUGUSTE RODIN A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
KARL KRAUS I really consider myself a writer, and a writer who is sometimes a social critic. I'm not an ide...
ANNE ROIPHE I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be...
ESTHER DYSON If you don't have a father, you don't miss it, because you don't know what it is. It was...
GLORIA VANDERBILT The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha...
AILEEN LEE The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo a...
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JOHN LASSETER This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is...
BETTY CARTER Songwriting is such an intricate part of me as an artist and as a person; I couldn't just let so...
SHAKIRA He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
DAVID SEABURY There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - i...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someon...
JOE NAMATH I'm not an extremely prolific writer. I don't write songs all the time.
BILLY BURKE Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful thing...
AKSHAY VASU Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.
LARRY SPEAKES The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an arti...
JOHN CASSAVETES One reason I don't suffer Writer's Block is that I don't wait on the muse, I summon it a...
PIERS ANTHONY The greatest act of faith is when man admits he is not god.
OLIVER WENDEL HOLMES A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anythi...
YOLANDA ADAMS I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to d...
BRETT YOUNG I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
DAVID GUTERSON Most of the time when people work with an artist, they don't give them what they need for the fu...
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ANG LEE I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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DON MIGUEL RUIZ I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the...
AYAD AKHTAR I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see r...
SAM HUNT What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone t...
KENDALL JENNER I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who wr...
PAULA FOX When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a s...
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