A Quotes
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“An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.”
“An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and the viewer, so it's close to what a musical composer does, or a poet or a dancer. It is coming out of one's inner being.”
“An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.”
“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.”
“An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four
“An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.”
“An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.”
“An artist must be a reactionary”
Source: decline and fall
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor [group think] of the age and not go flopping along. By doing this he helps us to question and reassess our past, present and future situations, our assumptions and our options.”
“An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.”
“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”
Source: Not So Simple: The
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.”
“An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.”
“An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.”
“An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.”
“An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.”
“An artist must either give up art or develop.”
Source: i lost it at the movies
“An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.”
Source: Mark Tobey, art and belief
“An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.”
“An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye.”
Source: The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti: Based on Studies in the Archives of the Buonarroti Family at Florence
“An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.”
“An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.”
“An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.”
“An artist must smash down the systems that domesticate the mind.”
“An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it a noble thing that, for example, no winter passed without The Graphic doing something to keep alive sympathy for the poor.”
“An artist need to be free in imagination and disciplined in execution.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.”
Source: The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin
“An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.”
Source: Joni Mitchell: Both Sides Now
“An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.”
“An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond... a good feeling about his art.”
“An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.”
“An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving force in one's life. These recognitions seen in art are the difference between decent, extraordinary and great.”
“An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.”
“An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.”
“An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.”
Source: Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary
“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”
“An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.”
“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.”
“An artist paints his own reality.”
“An artist paints his picture not in a few hours but in all the years of experience before he takes up the brush, and it is the same with failure.”
Source: The Tenth Man
“An artist paints to forget while a poet writes to remember.”
“An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.”
“An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.”
“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”
“An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.”
Source: The Objectivist
“An artist's job is to make new clichés.”
Source: Playing to the Gallery