Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Catherwas an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1873
CountryUnited States of America
men artist long
The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.
artist talent notes
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
art spring writing
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.
art cooking made
No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.
art simplicity should
Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
art believe eye
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
art keys decide-upon
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.
artist secret artistry
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
art spring roots
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
creativity artist world
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
art men ends
Art and religion -they are the same thing, in the end, of course- have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
art matter censorship
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
summer dream art
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
growth artistic truthfulness
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.