Creative Rivalry Quotes

I'm a catalogue artist: I compete with Bob Dylan.

I'm quite interested in adapting some of James Herbert's early work. 'The Dark'... But I was always desperate to do an adaptation of 'War of the Worlds' until the Beard stole it from underneath my feet.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.

An artist should not fall in love with another artist.

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp.

All those crazy Impressionist painters in France were friends but they would write about how jealous and competitive they were. That's what makes good art.

I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we're trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

I never thought I'd be up against Salvador Dali and Roy Disney.

It would be horrible if there was no competition. It's what people want to see - they either like you or they don't. Not everybody likes Van Gogh. Or Bob Dylan! So you have Neil Young...or Ozzy Osbourne.

One of the fun things in the old days about writing with Frank Miller was that every issue of 'Daredevil' was a challenge to every issue of 'X-Men.'

I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.

Envy's a sharper spur than pay: No author ever spar'd a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another.

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.

Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

All of us are extremely competitive. We're kind of competitive with how we work on Radiohead stuff. Having said that, there's also a lot of support.

I'm doing an introduction for one of Ralph's [Steadman] books. He's doing something called Gonzo, the Art I think he's stealing from me. I like Steadman and his coattail abilities. Ralph is better at business than I am. He has always managed to get free whiskey.