Art(212)

"I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them."
Isaac Bashevis Singer

"If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes."
Mickey Spillane

"You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you."
Edward Steichen

"Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man."
Edward Steichen

"Photography is a major force in explaining man to man."
Edward Steichen

"When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration."
Edward Steichen

"Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product."
Edward Steichen

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."
Gertrude Stein

"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."
Paul Strand

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."
Barbra Streisand