The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
– Truman Capote
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- Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist. – Kata Mlek
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- How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- Imagination, of course, can open any door – turn the key and let terror walk right in. – Truman Capote
- Don’t wanna sleep, don’t wanna die, just wanna go a-travelin’ through the pastures of the sky. – Truman Capote
- The only rich women who ever interested me, the ones who were ever my friends, were adventuresses—people who were total self-creations. – Truman Capote
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- Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. – Truman Capote
- If we know the past, and live the present, it is possible that we dream the future? – Truman Capote
- Fitzgerald has charm. It’s a silly word, but it’s an exact word for me. I like ‘The Great Gatsby’ and it’s sad, gay nostalgia. – Truman Capote
- Are the dead as lonesome as the living? – Truman Capote
- The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird. – Truman Capote
- You can’t give your heart to a wild thing. – Truman Capote
- Those fellows, they’re always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims. – Truman Capote
- Duntz asked Smith, ‘Added up, how much money did you get from the Cutters?’ ‘Between forty and fifty dollars. – Truman Capote
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- Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
- An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself through his works! – Ramana Pemmaraju
- Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
- MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
- Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? – Irvin D Yalom
- Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
- nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know. – Paul Bowles
- A great artist is conscious of the talent and the power he possesses, otherwise he would not see his faults, and so would not be able to improve. – HS Ede
- Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It’s getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean. – Suzy Kassem
- Don’t worry about meaning. If a story’s any good, it can’t help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means. – William Kittredge
- Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
- A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams. – Deshwal Sachin
- Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again. – Charles ens
- Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose. – John Kuypers
- When you hurt some cunt [-¦] it’s you duty to enjoy it, otherwise you’ve done it for ???? all, it means nothing – Irvine Welsh
- The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning. – Maggie Nelson
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- An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself. – Yarro Rai