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An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be received; and we cannot have this gift except, perhaps, by supplication, by courting, by creating within ourselves that ‘begging bowl’ to which the gift is drawn.Collection: Artist
An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocationCollection: Artist
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.Collection: Artist
Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.Collection: Artist
As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.Collection: Artist
We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.Collection: Artist
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.Collection: Artist
...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.Collection: Artist
The conclusion does not belong to the artist.Collection: Artist
Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection. - AlexanderCollection: Artist
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.Collection: Artist
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.Collection: Artist
The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.Collection: Artist
Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.Collection: Artist
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?Collection: Artist
How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?Collection: Artist
The more an artist works the more there is to do.Collection: Artist
As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.Collection: Artist
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.Collection: Artist
We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.Collection: Artist
The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.Collection: Artist
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.Collection: Artist
The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.Collection: Artist
Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.Collection: Artist
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.Collection: Artist
Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me onCollection: Artist
As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.Collection: Artist
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.Collection: Artist
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.Collection: Artist
Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.Collection: Artist
It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.Collection: Artist
I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.Collection: Artist
My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.Collection: Artist
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truthCollection: Artist
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!Collection: Artist
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.Collection: Artist
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.Collection: Artist
As an artist, it's so important to create music that puts a chill through your body or does something to make you feel good. I think my album has a little bit of everything in it and that's important to me.Collection: Artist
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the futureCollection: Artist
Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's headCollection: Artist
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with usCollection: Artist
In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.Collection: Artist
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.Collection: Artist
Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.Collection: Artist
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.Collection: Artist
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.Collection: Artist