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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.


Oscar Wilde


#life #life

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.


Adriana Trigiani


#deadline #stamina #tools #life

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.


Patricia Bosworth


#artistry #high-standards #life

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave.


Darnell Lamont Walker


#creativity #life #understanding #life

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.


Colin R. Davis


#celebrity #everyone #immediate #produce #success

Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake.


Maurice Chevalier


#real-life #life

Competitions are for horses, not artists.


Bela Bartok


#competitions #horses

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.


Patti Digh


#creative #real-life #life

We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.


Patti Digh


#choose-our-own-destiny #create #keep-on-going #life

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left unexploited, if they are going to encourage anxious, ambitious actors, directors, writers and producers to continue their assault on the English language by reducing the vocabularies of their characters to half a dozen words, with one colorful but overused Anglo-Saxon verb and one unbeautiful Anglo-Saxon noun covering just about every situation, then I would like to suggest that they stop and think about this: making millions is not the whole ball game, fellows. Pride of workmanship is worth more. Artistry is worth more.


Gregory Peck


#films #motion-pictures #movies #workmanship #movies