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“Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.”

Spirit Artist Turns Born Blood Poet Hills Santa Rosa

Author:Robert Ripley

“As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.”

Artist Blood Pens

Author:Paul Monette

“That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.”

Art Jobs Artist Differences Ability Blood Objects Serious Materials Art Is Wave Caught Obsessed Shore Antidote Craftsman Venom Proust

Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires werethese elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.”

“So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”

“I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!”

Years Kind Has Beens Two Artist Wish Blood Involved Band My Family Hendrix

Author:Earl Monroe

“What record companies do these days is drain the blood dry of an album, take six singles off it, and harm the longevity of artists' careers by doing it.”

Artist Company Careers Records Blood Six Albums Harm These Days Dry Longevity Drains Record Companies Singles

Author:Elton John

“I love any opportunity to be able to dance. It's in my blood. I mean, I need to do it as an artist. I need to always do it.”

Needs Mean Able Artist Opportunity Blood

Author:Joan Chen

“Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists hurts themselves as much, if not more, than they benefit from the attention they derive from their actions. Con artists usually benefit from misleading others without sacrificing anything themselves. All my girls have sacrificed plenty.”

Ifs Action Artist Girl Hurt Attention Sacrifice Blood Benefits Beats Plenty Hospitals Fists Mislead Achilles My Girl Con Artist

Author:Janice Erlbaum

“When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.”

Made Hands Artist Novel Blood Ink Graphic Graphic Novels

Author:Molly Crabapple

“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”

Doe Whole Facts Artist Blood Hero Deny Dirty Nasty Knights Armor Naughty Criminal Mind Noir Best Criminal Minds

Author:Frank Miller

“What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.”

Mean Enough Artist Black Answers Blood Grandmother Black Women Great Grandmother

Book:Everyday Use

Source: Everyday Use