“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

— Richard Yates, book Revolutionary Road

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Novelist, short story writer 1926–1992

Edward Storer (1880–1944) British writer

'Leigh Hunt' Herbert and Daniel, London, 1913

“The only true exile is the writer who lives in his own country.”

Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) Argentinian writer

“An epoch can only be reproduced by its own artists, I mean by the artists who lived in it. I hold the artists of one century basically incapable of reproducing the aspect of a past or future century-in other words, of painting the past or the future.”

Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) French painter

1860s, Realist Manifesto' - an open letter, 1861

“It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.”

Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time

Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 188

“The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.”

Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter

1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)

“Service of the people by sciences and arts will only exist when men live with the people and as the people live, and without presenting any claims will offer their scientific and artistic services, which the people will be free to accept or decline as they please.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

What then must we do? (1886)

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.”

John Marshall (1755–1835) fourth Chief Justice of the United States

Cohens v. Virginia, 19 U.S. (6 Wheaton) 264, 387 (1821)

“[An artist must apply] his personal faculties to the ideas and the events of the times in which he lives... [A]rt in painting should consist only of the representation of things which that are visible and tangible to the artist. Every age should be represented only by its own artists, that is to say, by the artist who have lived in it. I also maintain that painting is an essentially concrete art form and can exist only of the representation of both real and existing things... An abstract object, not visible, nonexistent, is not within the domain of painting.”

Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) French painter

Quote in an open letter ('Credo'), (Paris, end of December 1861), published in the 'Courier du Dimanche', (addressed to prospective students); as quoted in Letters of Gustave Courbet, transl. & ed. Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, University of Chicago Press 1992, pp. 203-204
1860s

“I think that’s fair, well, I don’t know if it’s fair but I think people are entitled to their own reaction.”

Timothée Chalamet (1995) French-American Actor (1995)

Source: "Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet on drugs, disillusionment and playing father and son" in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/13/steve-carell-and-timothee-chalamet-on-drugs-disillusionment-and-playing-father-and-son (13 December 2018)

“A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

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