Quotes About Artistic Success

#1. First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Anne Rice

#2. The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#3. The artist ... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.

James Joyce

#4. It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you.

Andre Benjamin

#5. If you are fat, no matter what you wear, nothing is going to make you sexier.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#6. Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.

Rachel Kushner

#7. In the 'west' success is defined in purely material terms. He with the most money wins ... We should question, speak out and work for a better society with a whole different definition of what is deemed a successful artistic life.

Mark A. Brennan

#8. Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their days, the types who give much artistic expression to the world, but who are lonely in their overcrowded worlds of love.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#9. Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#10. My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it.

James Garner

#11. WH Auden: "The first criterion of success in any human activity, the necessary preliminary, whether to scientific discovery or artistic vision, is intensity of attention or, less pompously, love.

ESPN Cricinfo

#12. I'm honestly not jealous of my wife at all - when she succeeds I'm psyched. It never occurred to me to feel threatened by her success. But the one thing I am jealous of is the number of awesome, interesting, artistic, productive, and cool people she gets to hang out with all day.

Christopher Noxon

#13. You don't really have to do the things that your character is doing. But us actors, we use something called sense memory. I've certainly been drunk before, and part of my job is to recall that without getting drunk.

Jeff Bridges

#14. Life is not a competition, it's a game. There are no winners or losers. We all end up dead. Thirdly,

Matthew Kimberley

#15. You are the artistic painter of your success. Paint your life day-by-day, into a masterpiece of excellence over a lifetime.

Mark LaMoure

#16. Success is like a "Tawaif" Noble, Artistic, Rich, literate, full of etiquette and of course an addiction.. Yet never loyal to anyone.. You have to be a "deserving slave" to get her ..

Himmilicious

#17. When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more.

Sia Furler

#18. Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

Diane Ackerman

#19. There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every Artist: whether he admits it or not; naturally wants to get into.

Caitlin Thomas

#20. There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

John McLaughlin

#21. If you want to be successful at anything in life, you have to take action.

Lise Cartwright

#22. I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photography. It seems to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. (1898)

Gertrude Kasebier

#23. We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.

Guy Laliberte