Artistic Endeavor Quotes

#1. Wherever there is demand, there must be supply.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Booker T. Washington

#3. Much of the conflict occurring in congregations is caused when a church calls a pastor whose gifts and passion do not match what the church has been in the past.

Rick Warren

#4. His hand framed my face and his tone was edget with husky authority. I want you, but only if you want me.

Katie McGarry

#5. Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.

Dana Spiotta

#6. A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

Anthony Burgess

#7. The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.

Gerard De Marigny

#8. My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's typical question was "We have always done this. Why don't we do it another way or, better still, why not do something else?"

John D. Rockefeller

#9. The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.

Billy Corgan

#10. Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.

Mark Van Doren

#11. A little suspension of disbelief will take you a long way.

Me

#12. It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#13. The wide open nature of any truly creative artistic endeavor is one of its most important virtues, and one of its harshest realities. Only the most determined, hardest working, capable and creative will make their way to earning a good living by their art.

Mike Svob

#14. Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

John Dykstra

#15. That a work of creation struggles and insistently demands to be brought into being is a fact that no genuine artist would think of denying.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#16. Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.

Marco Brambilla

#17. We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen.

Ayn Rand

#18. Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Alistair Cooke

#19. So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

Cathy Rigby

#20. It is a hopeless endeavor to make the form and content of earlier architectural epochs usable for our time; in this, even the strongest artistic talent must fail. We see repeatedly how the outstanding builders fail to achieve an effect because their work does not serve the will of the age.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#21. I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself ... all those doubts.

Jean Dujardin

#22. He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Seneca The Younger

#23. I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

Carla Gugino

#24. When you get your author's photo taken, be sure not to touch your face." "Why would I do that?" "It's a mystery, but quite common. You must have seen this one." Oscar struck a brooding pose, his fist beneath his chin. "For the author whose brain is too heavy to stay up on its own.

Scott Westerfeld

#25. If everyone in America agreed that 80 percent of their contributions for House, Senate, and president could only come from people making contributions of $100 or less, we'd have a pretty darn good system. The influence of money would be gone.

Brian Williams

#26. Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

Tea Obreht

#27. Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol