Famous quotes containing the words folk and/or artist:
“I have usually found that there was method in his madness.
Some folk might say there was madness in his method.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“[The pleasures of writing] correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading, the bliss, the felicity of a phrase is shared by writer and reader: by the satisfied writer and the grateful reader, orwhich is the same thingby the artist grateful to the unknown force in his mind that has suggested a combination of images and by the artistic reader whom his combination satisfies.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)