Artistic Shame Quotes

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.

There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

I don't want my kid to hear any of the albums that I've made.