Famous quotes containing the words big and/or artists:
“A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“As artists they’re rot, but as providers they’re oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter. And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)