A Quotes
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“Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
“Artists are in the imagining/ prototyping business. Society needs people to be out there thinking of what might be. That cannot be something we just delegate to politicians or technologists.”
“Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.”
“Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.”
“Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.”
“Artists are just entrepreneurs. It's up to them to figure out how or if they can make a monetary profit from their passion − from their calling, as I discussed above. Sometimes they can. Musicians can sell music, even in the face of piracy. Or they can sell their services − concerts, etc. Painters and other artists can profit in similar ways. A novelist could use kickstarter for a sequel or get paid to consult on a movie version.”
“Artists are kids. I feel like I'm six years old.”
“Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.”
“Artists are like everybody else.”
“Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.”
“Artists are looking for a new modernity that would be based on translation: What matters today is to translate the cultural values of cultural groups and to connect them to the world network. This “reloading process” of modernism according to the twenty-first-century issues could be called altermodernism, a movement connected to the creolisation of cultures and the fight for autonomy, but also the possibility of producing singularities in a more and more standardized world.”
“Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.”
“Artists are low key astronauts.
Instead of going to the moon, they sit back in their studio and make the moon.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“Artists are magicians and I definitely think John Lennon was a Wizard.”
“Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.”
“Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.”
“Artists are modest. They know they're not doing the work; they're just taking dictation.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator”
Source: Art Psalms
“Artists are mostly shits of the worst order. You wouldn't want one living next door to you. Think about it: Vincent Van Gogh living next door, coming over to borrow your ear and a cup of sugar every morning-Good God!”
“Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.”
Source: Sol LeWitt wall drawing 1176: seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square : for Josef Albers
“Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.”
Source: KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM
“Artists are never complete people. But if it's art that completes them, then what is taken away?”
“Artists are not born. It just happens and once you identify yourself as an artist, you relentlessly pursue it for life.”
“Artists are not born out of love. It’s the absence of love that gives birth to this anguish, agony, resentment, fury and an hour-long conversation within the loneliness of an empty ribcage. It’s the quest for love, for recognition and then the set back leaving the artist aghast because none of that matters anymore. He has wandered way too far on this illicit lane of human psyche. You do not eat the forbidden apple and artists always do that, only to live a life cursed by their own romance with the sadness of a vain destination.
It’s dangerous to be this close to an artist where you keep his name on the tip of your tongue, hold yellow in your fist, and stare at the bewildering starry night. There’s chaos, so much of it that you hear his screams in his letters to Theo, you see him in the cracks of the palette of dried water paint.
There are a few things that we do not want to share with anyone. That's where the heart is.”
“Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.”
“Artists are not going to put somebody new in the president's chair. It's all worth the effort; it all needs to be done. But I don't look at songwriting as having the ability to necessarily do that today.”
“Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it’s also the artist’s story, and if you’re working with an illustrator who’s any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process.”
“Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.”
“Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.”
“Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.”
“Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in the same pages or spaces.”
“Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Artists are often the barometers of society.”
“Artists are on the average less happy than men of science.”
Source: The Conquest of Happiness
“Artists are one the final holdouts. Virtually every profession is being driven towards commodification. And corporations, with their profit-driven standardization, building consensus, obfuscation, and aversion to risk, are the ENEMY of art.”
Source: Art from Your Core: A Holistic Guide to Visual Voice
“Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.”
“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
“Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts - only in the truth.”
“Artists are people who are not at all interested in the facts—only in the truth. You get the facts from outside. The truth you get from inside.”
Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.”
“Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.”
“Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.”
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.”
“Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.”
“Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.”
“Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.”
“Artists are sometimes in a position to tell the truth, but they're positioned as a Cassandra. They're gifted with impeccable prophecy and the assurance of never being listened to.”
“Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection.”
“Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.”
“Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.”