Western Artists

Famous quotes containing the words western and/or artists:

“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

“The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs.... Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)