Artistic Fate Quotes

One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

My musical career was an accident.

I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

What you write chooses you.

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

The fate of a song is often established in the first 15 minutes of writing.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Some of you are doomed to be artists.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

Had I not become entangled with music, I would have become an author much earlier.

Every film has its destiny.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we didn't decide anything. It was decided for us. I firmly believe that mythical godmothers make appearances at our cradles, and bestow their gifts. The godmother who might have blessed me with a singing voice did not show up; the goddess of dance was nowhere in sight; the chef-to-the-angels was otherwise engaged. Only one made the journey to my cradle, and she whispered, "You will be a storyteller."

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.