A Quotes
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“Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.”
“Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.”
“Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.”
Source: Dreamers of the Ghetto
“Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.”
“Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.”
“Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.”
“Artistically I'm curious. But in life? No. I can go to a restaurant and order the same thing for 10 years.”
“Artistically, I find jokes really satisfying aesthetically, because there's something great about getting an idea down to a sentence or two.”
“Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing.”
“Artistry doesn’t always need an audience. Sometimes, it just needs a moment.”
Source: Guided Transformation: Poems, Quotes & Inspiration
“Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul's personal desire to find an outlet for expression.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Artistry has to define the Artist so there is no other way but to create the kind of music that speaks about who you are and what's important to you, therefore individualizing the Artist.”
“Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.”
“Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.”
Source: Sparks
“Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.”
“artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.”
“Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.”
“Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.”
“Artists always shine brightly in times such as these. During any tragedy or economic crisis throughout history, creative communities have always thrived in solidarity. And it will happen again. As the world crashes around us, we will get out our paints and pens.”
“Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.”
“Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.”
“Artists and designers have a largely shared skill set and knowledge base but the work they create, however indistinguishable in terms of technique, subject matter and visual language, is made for entirely different reasons. Attempts to define or make clear distinctions between art and design are always contestable, but at the beginning of a diagnostic process it is useful to identify a simple delineation between the two:
Art
An artist's practice generally emerges from their own individual concerns explored over varying durations in the studio. The work is then usually presented to a knowing public either in galleries or in designated public spaces.
Design
Design is largely initiated externally from the needs or desires of a client or external body. The functionality of the designed solution is as important as its desirability, craft and aesthetics.
Design is in the public domain and, as such, its messages, meanings and functions are inextricably linked to the political, social and economic concerns of its audience/ user and its context.”
Source: The Central Saint Martins Guide to Art & Design: Key lessons from the word-renowned Foundation course
“artists and lovers...
maybe,
you'll lose a little sleep
and the sanity will waver…
but you'll trade it for the dreams.
for the bleeding of the colors and
the escape from time.
and maybe the peace will
take turns with the chaos,
but this love will
touch. taste. feel. like fire…
and your soul will stir
and your heart will race
and the art will breathe
and the awakenings will come
again and again.
and just. the existence of them…
who they are… how they are…
it will create all those hurricanes
that you feel in your chest walls.
and that's how you'll know.
because if they are for you…
you'll feel it in your chest walls.”
“Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.”
“Artists and philosophers should learn one thing: they should not expect that their art or their philosophy should produce money. If they need money, they should get purely involved in making money and not mix money with their art or their philosophy. Therein lies the defect of the examples you have given. They needed money and therefore called on their art or philosophy to produce money. Wrong! Money corrupts. Selling art or philosophy for money corrupts the art and the philosophy.”
“Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect
wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.”
“artists and their art are liberated souls
forever sprinting and searching in the world.”
“Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.”
“Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.”
“Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.”
“Artists are a very important part of our society because they make a great contribution to our values. The artist creates a value system that we all grow up on, whether we know it or not.”
“Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.”
“Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists
job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs
shattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought and
emotion. Art that does nothing new, that simply fills an established role, is not art.
It is a product. A stale, stagnant product of a disgustingly mundane process that has been
done so much it is assumed mandatory. Little different than feces. The last thing the world
needs is to get shittier.”
“Artists are all giving so much of ourselves to the work and the people and the press and the media and Twitter and all that now. For me, being able to create from a genuine place is really difficult lately because there's so much going on all the time, but when all that stuff gets quiet, you can explore your ideas without any ego or mental chatter.”
“Artists are always good for conversation, so long as you want to talk about their art.”
Source: The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery
“Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.”
“Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.”
“Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.”
Source: A Working Theory of Love: A Novel
“Artists are always young.”
“Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.”
“Artists are born not made. There's nothing you can do for them.”
“Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.”
Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress
“Artists are definitely, like, under a sort of microscope of scrutiny more than others.”
“Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Artists are expected to talk about their work but writers aren't expected to talk about their writing.”
“artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.”
Source: Innocence and experience: stories
“Artists are fiery; they do not weep.”
“Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.”
“Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”
“Artists are haunted souls.”