Steve Breen Quotes

I knew from experience at the Negro Ensemble Company that it wasn't until there was a place controlled by black artists... that Pulitzer Prize-winning work like 'Ceremonies in Dark Old Men' and 'A Soldier's Play' came to fruition.

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award.

Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

I did a play called 'Disgraced' in 2012 at Lincoln Center, which ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize. I played the lead character, a Muslim American, who had renounced Islam and became very anti-Islam.

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

As far as cartoons go, I watched a lot of 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy' when I was a kid.

People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.

I'd made this film called 'This Little Life,' and it went round the fests and won awards and did well.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely.

I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.The play didn't make it but I was a success. It lasted six days but I sung four songs and there were critics, seriously, in New York who said that my part was perfect. So I can beat Joe Frazier singing.

It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

You are an artist. What work of art will you leave behind?

If at the end of your first ten or fifteen years of fighting and working and feeling, you find you've written one line of one poem, you'll be very lucky indeed.

I've been really happy just traveling and being Mrs. Johnny Cash all these years. But I'm also really happy and surprised that someone wanted me to make another album, and I'm real proud of what I've done.

I am not one to generalize, but cartoonists, as a group, exhibit a level of social sophistication generally associated with pie fights. In high school, when the future lawyers were campaigning for class president, the future cartoonists were painstakingly altering illustrations in their history books so that Robert E. Lee appeared to be performing an illegal act with his horse.

If I can win grammys then that means all you yet to be seen bedroom geniuses will one day TAKEOVER THE WORLD

If you just work on your craft hard, that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing?