A Quotes
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“An artist is a man who tries to express the inexpressible.”
“An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”
“An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.”
Source: The Artist's Life
“An artist is a prophet and seer, not a paint craftsman or design maker, or reporter or entertainer... the artist has the superiorly searching perception with which that world outside of man's contamination can be penetrated and the truth drawn out from it.”
“An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell, what it is like to be alive. All I’ve ever wanted to do is tell that, I’m not trying to solve anybody’s problems, not even my own. I’m just trying to outline what the problems are.
I want to be stretched, shook up, to overreach myself, and to make you feel that way too.”
“An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn't capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won't put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, then he isn't a great artist.”
“An artist is always in the state of becoming.”
“An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.”
“an artist is always seeking revelation.”
Source: The Goddess Abides: A Novel
“An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.”
“An artist is an artist before they have ever produced a single thing. The production of something is not what makes a body an artist. It is the soul that makes an artist, the core of the psyche that fills the person, the creative fire inside a person that make them an artist. And if that person has the soul of an artist, that is they have the burning as each and every individual does, then they are an artist, they are entitled to the title artist, we are all entitled to the title artist before we have produced one single thing”
Source: The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories on the Cycles of Creativity
“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
“An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.”
“An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.”
Source: Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings
“An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”
“An artist is either good at color or good at value but rarely good at both. I focus on the tonal range, the dark-light effects, rather than the full color range of bright colors. I just don't know what to do with all those cadmiums.”
“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
Source: Willem de Kooning
“An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.”
“An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.”
“An artist is he who has his center within himself. He who lacks this must choose a particular leader and mediator outside of himself, not forever, however, but only at first. For man cannot exist without a living center, and if he does not have it within himself, he may seek it only in a human being. Only a human being and his center can stimulate and awaken that of another.”
“An artist is his own fault.”
Source: The New York Stories
“An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.”
“An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.”
Source: The Clown
“An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.”
“An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.”
“An artist is not a passive consumer of the world but an active creator of the world. So be careful what you create – you're going to live there.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
“An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions.”
“An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.”
“An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“An artist is only truly an artist when they are bound by nothing but art itself. Otherwise, they become art-bound; trapped by money, politics, fame, and other distractions. But even then, there is an art in making money, an art in protest, an art in being seen, so long as it’s not just for attention. That too, in its own way, is art.”
“An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.”
“An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.”
“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
“An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“An artist is someone who feels the vibrations of the world and tries to transcribe them through his medium.”
“An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.”
“An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.”
“An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone.”
“An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”
“An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.”
“An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.”
“An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.”
“An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for. I reject the idea that I have to take all the costumes and makeup off to be f - king authentic.”
“An artist is usually the handyman in the service of inspiration.”
“An artist is vulnerable and their craft truthful when he/she resists the desire to meddle with the wholesome expression of the soul”
“An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.”