Artistic Professions Quotes

The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.

Each year, more people want to become artists.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

The minority who actually loves its work seems to be made up chiefly of the writers, dancers, actors and other artists, most scientists above the technician-troll level, computer freaks, and the righteous dope-dealers of California.

Rock and roll stars have it much better than writers when they're on a tour.

Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature.

I don't meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

I think you have to have different tools for each job - you know producer is very different from a director and very different from an actor.

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.