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Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.Collection: Artist
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.Collection: Artist
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.Collection: Artist
Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience.Collection: Artist
Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.Collection: Artist
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.Collection: Artist
I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.Collection: Artist
As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.Collection: Artist
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.Collection: Artist
I want the unobtainable. Other artists paint a bridge, a house, a boat, and that's the end. They are finished. I want to paint the air which surrounds the bridge, the house, the boat, the beauty of the air in which these objects are located, and that is nothing short of impossible.Collection: Artist
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.Collection: Artist
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.Collection: Artist
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.Collection: Artist
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.Collection: Artist
We might say that both the artist and theneurotic bite off more than they can chew, but the artist spews it back out again and chews it over in an objectified way, as an external, active, work project.Collection: Artist
The big, big record labels have so much control. I think too much control that it actually made their artists scared to not do what they were told and then the music suffers because of that dynamic and now there's the power of the download.Collection: Artist
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.Collection: Artist
Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.Collection: Artist
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?Collection: Artist
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.Collection: Artist
Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective as trying to sell it.Collection: Artist
Artists should re-emphasize performance and de-emphasize recording. You always make more money if you have a healthy performing life than you will if you have even a moderately healthy recording life. Don't make recording the most important thing you do. Make performing the most important thing you do, and then you can make recordings and sell them at your shows, because record labels aren't going to be around to help you get on the radio stations, and the radio stations probably aren't going to play you anyway.Collection: Artist
If you're an artist like a really, really long time, it stops being a performance. I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience... I show you some of me. It's not a show no more.Collection: Artist
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.Collection: Artist
When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.Collection: Artist
I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding the emotion. Artists have not pored over heartache and unrequited sentimentality for years so that our generation could decide that four letters is simply one too many to express how we feel.Collection: Artist
The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.Collection: Artist
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.Collection: Artist
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.Collection: Artist
I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.Collection: Artist
Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.Collection: Artist
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.Collection: Artist
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?Collection: Artist
I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.Collection: Artist
We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.Collection: Artist
A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.Collection: Artist
An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.Collection: Artist
At moments we are all artists.Collection: Artist
I open up my violin case every day, and have one of the great creations. It is very inspiring. It makes you want to practice. How can you open up a case and look at a violin that was made in 1713 by one of the greatest artists in history and then say, "No, I don't feel like practicing today."Collection: Artist
Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it’s also the artist’s story, and if you’re working with an illustrator who’s any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process.Collection: Artist
It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.Collection: Artist
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing.Collection: Artist
The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.Collection: Artist
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!Collection: Artist
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.Collection: Artist
...why is an artist an artist? Artists simply do feel and see things in a different way to other people. In a way it's a blessing, but it can also be a terrible curse. There's a great deal of satisfaction to be earned from it but often it's also a terrible burden.Collection: Artist
You take the risk of being rejected. If you have pretentions to be an artist of any kind, you have to take the risk of people rejecting you and thinking you're an arsehole.Collection: Artist