When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.
There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.