A Quotes
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“An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.”
“An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.”
Source: Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation
“An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.”
“An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.”
“An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist”
“An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking
“An artist cannot do anything slovenly.”
Source: Jane Austen's Letters
“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”
“An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.”
“An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.”
“An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.”
“An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.”
Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition
“An artist constantly risks falling fully into chaos, instead of transforming it.”
Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“An artist creates songs and timeless moments that are reflections that impact culture, and you can do that in any way - with guitars, ukelele, a computer. So, that will never die. It's always the artist behind the computer, not the computer.”
“An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.”
“An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create.”
“An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.”
Source: Ripley Under Ground
“An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning your living with it. One of the definitions of a professional is you can do some writing if you have to, even in the most extreme situations.”
“An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.”
“An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.”
“An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.”
“An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.”
“An artist draws attention to something they find interesting. I love this idea of creativity
because it’s down to earth. Photos posted online, an oil painting in the national gallery, a
fridge magnet, a sculpture in the street – they’re a finger pointing at something the artist is
enthusiastic about and want to share.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“An artist encounters an untranslatable experience and it causes in him such violent wonder and disquiet that he must try, with what will he can, to overcome the gulf, to attempt to reconcile ‘God’ and ‘Nature’ with ‘the single life.’ Here we have two untranslatable experiences. The first is the friendship, which, like all friendships, one cannot fully describe to anyone else. The second is grief, which again, like all forms of grief, is horrible exactly for how uncommunicable it is.”
Source: My Friends
“An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.”
“An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.”
“An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.”
“An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. My novels are epic fantasy, but they are inspired by and grounded in history. Rape and sexual violence have been a part of every war ever fought, from the ancient Sumerians to our present day. To omit them from a narrative centered on war and power would have been fundamentally false and dishonest, and would have undermined one of the themes of the books: that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.”
“An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.”
“An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art”
“An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.”
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.”
“An artist has got to be constantly in a state of becoming.”
“An Artist has his Imagination never dies,but it Grows you a Mystery, about its True Origin.”
“An artist has several names; He is the charming artist, an awakened artist, an illuminator of possibilities; But also the only one is there to give us art.”
“An artist has to be humble, an editor must be officious, and a publisher must be somewhere out in the galaxy enjoying godhood. It was a caste system, pure and simple. And it was accepted that way. Nobody thought of contracts, nobody thought of insisting on better deals.”
“An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?”
“An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.”
“An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.”
“An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes, with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills." — Daniel Burnham talking about Frederick Law Olmstead”
Source: The Devil In The White City
“An artist in 2014 who is thinking about album sales is either sadly deluded or has to make so many commercial compromises that it sort of takes the joy out of making music.”
“An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.”
“An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.”
Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”
“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
“An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)
“An artist is a man who digests his own subjective impressions and knows how to find a general objective meaning in them, and how to express them in a convincing form.”
“An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way”
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns