"It is very bad for (an artist)..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“You're beautiful, like a May fly.”
“Never confuse movement with action.”
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.”
More on Art
“Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.”
“I never tell anyone what to take away from a movie.”
“There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.”