Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Oscar WildeChristmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
Pope FrancisPractically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Groucho MarxBut I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen KingEvery movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.
Clint EastwoodMy mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
J. Robert OppenheimerI’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.
Matthew McConaugheyI’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodI suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
David BowieIn Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.
Will RogersI’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
J. K. RowlingDisneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt DisneyNothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David ThoreauLike anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen KingThere was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
AristotleWhen you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor RooseveltWhere the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
Leonardo da VinciImagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas CarlyleIf you do things, whether it’s acting or music or painting, do it without fear – that’s my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there’s nothing to lose.
Anthony HopkinsIf you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
Joyce MeyerI think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
Oscar WildeI like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
Dr. SeussShared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Friedrich NietzscheMusic has the power to inspire the world.
Bad BunnyThe essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale CarnegieI am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
Kanye WestIt’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.
Kevin GatesI’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.
Bill GatesI don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
William JamesWe can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!
Russell M. NelsonI don’t know how to function without music. When I’m not making it, I’m listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
Billie EilishI knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn’t think I’d have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn’t know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del ReyAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinIf you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady GagaThere are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest HemingwayI’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.
Kevin HartGood ideas are free – or at least they should be.
Matthew McConaugheyI think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
Clint EastwoodI design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
Vivienne WestwoodI don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
Haruki MurakamiNo art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
John RuskinThe walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim RohnThink off-center.
George CarlinI don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
Lady GagaHundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas AdamsI hate the idea of genres.
Billie EilishThe Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Henry David ThoreauI’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.
David BowiePerhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous HuxleyThe secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
Mark TwainI’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.
DJ KhaledWrite injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin FranklinYou do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
Kevin HartSome people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
Stephen HawkingGenius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry PratchettI don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.
Jeff BezosI’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.
Billie EilishI don’t really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make.
Kendrick LamarI just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.
Steven WrightI think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it’s to be true and not cover up the cracks.
Bono