Artist Storyteller Quotes

#1. Hunger is the best pickle.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.

Bill Plympton

#3. To write a good song, an artist has to drawn from reality. There has to be some spark from realism that communicates a real feeling to someone else. You have to be real. Or you have to be a really good storyteller.

Daryl Hall

#4. Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

Terri Windling

#5. I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

Will Ferrell

#6. It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.

Jon Turteltaub

#7. If you own something you cannot give away, then you don't own it, it owns you.

Albert Schweitzer

#8. come much colder

Stieg Larsson

#9. Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

Luigina Sgarro

#10. Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Emmi Itaranta

#11. As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

Marshall Curry

#12. We divide the roles of mystic, doctor, therapist, artist, herbalist, naturalist, and storyteller into separate, often inimical professions. In most other societies, there was one word, one job assignment, for somebody who was all these things at once.

Martha N. Beck

#13. Fermat wrote in the margin: "I've discovered a truly wonderful proof for this argument. Unfortunately, this margin is too narrow to contain it." Two

Peter Hoeg

#14. I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

Sebastiao Salgado

#15. I was recognized as being an artist and a storyteller. If Hulk Hogan was the Elvis of wrestling, I was the Robert De Niro.

Bret Hart

#16. It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alan Alda

#17. The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Ovid

#18. Storyboards are kind of inflexible, once you finish making them you have to stick to them. Since animation takes such a long time you become a slave to a storyboard that was created four years ago while as an artist and storyteller you change, you have new ideas.

Signe Baumane

#19. No matter what the practice or teaching, ego loves to wait in ambush to appropriate spirituality for its own survival and gain.

Chogyam Trungpa

#20. There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.

Nora Roberts