Quotes for Artists

Temple Roof, edition of 15

"Artists draw your magazine covers, write your advertisements, hash out rag-time for your theatres. By the great commercializing of printing you've found a harmless, polite occupation for every genius who might have carved his own niche. But beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit - the Rousseau, the Tolstoy, the Samuel Butler, the Amory Blaine ---"

F. Scott Fitzgerald from This Side of Paradise