A Quotes
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“An artist's job is to be interested in things as they are.”
“An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.”
“An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.”
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”
Source: franny and zooey
“An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.”
Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection
“An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.”
“An artist's sphere of influence is the world.”
“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”
“An artist's voice, communication, that's very important. The learning, the building of your energy to communicate deeper and deeper even without words, the expanse of your source-spark energy to reach people at deeper energy levels is very beautiful to learn about since it's our mission here as artists to help beings transcend limitations and any feeling, thing keeping their love down to show them that we are all artists with very special sides of energy light from the creator.”
“An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators.”
“An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.”
“An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.”
Source: The Theatre of E. E. Cummings
“An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to have mankind and womankind realize that there is something greater than what we see on the surface.”
“An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous.”
“An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.”
“An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.”
“An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.”
“An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.”
“An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY OCCURS EACH TIME AS A NEW AND UNIQUE IMAGE OF THE WORLD, A HIEROGLYPHIC OF ABSOLUTE TRUTH. IT APPEARS AS A REVELATION, AS A MOMENTARY, PASSIONATE WISH TO GRASP INTUITIVELY AND AT A STROKE ALL THE LAWS OF THIS WORLD-ITS BEAUTY AND UGLINESS, ITS COMPASSION AND CRUELTY, ITS INFINITY AND ITS LIMITATIONS.”
“An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.”
“An artistic impression is substantially the resultant of two components. One what the work of art gives the onlooker - the other, what he is capable of giving to the work of art.”
Source: Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg
“An artistic life is closely associated with a spiritual life as both represent an attempt to withdraw into enforced solitude in order to experience a person’s innermost self and to imbue the personal spirit with will and energy, virtue and purity. Both an artist and a spiritual seeker must possess an appreciation for beauty, the courage to confront personal demons, intellectual integrity to express truth, the self-discipline to labor endlessly, and the capacity to endure hardships that might break or destroy other people. Through protracted self-examination of and extensive contemplation of the gifts of nature an artistic and spiritual person overcomes their sense of desperation and feelings of isolation and aloneness, realizes oneness with the universe, becomes enlightened and free, lives humbly in a state of grace, and faces the future with curiosity and optimism.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An artistic person taps into the destructive emotional energy of guilt and shame and the longing to love and be loveable and transforms these powerful emotions into a creative force.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.”
Source: Killosophy
“An artistic work insensitive to party policy will lose its viability.”
“An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.”
“An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task”
Source: Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life
“An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool”
“An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.”
“An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.”
“An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.”
“An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.”
“An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.”
“An as he skellied intae the white bleeze, a troop o surveillance puggies advanced in heelstergowdie formation alang the corridor roof, skited by owre his heid an wi a clatter o metallic cleuks, skittered awa eastwards doon the shadowy vennel.”
Source: But n Ben A-Go-Go
“an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow.”
Source: Saint Richard Parker
“An ASD is an atrial septal defect. It is a hole in the heart. It is supposed to close at birth, but in some people it stays open. It causes low oxygen blood that is returning to the heart to mix with high oxygen blood. ASD’s can damage the lungs in the long term and can cause hypoxic blood to occur!”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.”
“An aside on the question of pleasure. The subject didn't really get much pleasure from all this fornicating she was doing. The compulsion wasn't to feel good, it was to enjoy the feeling of making someone want her, of making someone else feel good. Frequency of condition was high, in fact constant.”
Source: Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
“An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.”
“An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.”
“An aspersion upon my parts of speech!”
“An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you're feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you're interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.”
Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy
“An ass cannot value fragrance of Safran. Similarly, a shameless cannot feel the waves of shame or insult.”
“An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.”
“An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went
About the foreset with much merriment,
Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks,
Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane
That Raucous voice so petulant and vain,
Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away,
But that I know your old familiar bray'.
That's just the way with asses, just the way.”
“An assassin, an oppressor or a State can kill a person but they can never kill their destiny.”
Source: Legacy of the Third Way