A Quotes
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“Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”
“Artists are the antennae of the race.”
“Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.”
“Artists are the emotional historians of the world.”
“Artists are the flowers of our world. The best ones are those that can stand out from the crowd and create their own concrete garden -- to move us, inspire us, and makes us think hard. A flower with no smell to it is just something to look at. However, a flower that emits a beautiful fragrance is the one we want in our homes and on our walls. Your mission as an artist, is to become the best-smelling flower in the world, so that when the day finally comes when you are plucked from the ground, the world will cry for the loss of your mind-stimulating fragrance. Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in garden loaded with thousands of the same flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.
Truth Is Crying, 2008”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.”
“Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.”
“Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.”
Source: This Business of Living
“Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.”
“Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.”
“Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.”
“Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.”
“Artists are the people who stand on the frontier of the transformation of the unknown into knowledge. They make their voluntary foray out into the unknown, and they take a piece of it and transform it into an image.”
Source: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
“Artists are the radical voice of civilization.”
“Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be beautiful to another, to I and The Maker, they are Unique and yet, only equally as beautiful as any other. Some call that being a Dreamer. I call it, being Belov'ed.”
“Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.”
“Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.”
“Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.”
“Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.”
“Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive.
They are supersensitive.
They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas,
long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.”
“Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.”
“Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.”
“Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.”
Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.”
Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom
“Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.”
“Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the figments of their imaginations and who gear their lives to getting those figments into circulation.”
“Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.”
“Artists aren't necessarily business people. And they aren't necessarily aware of all the things that go on in their names. Some just want to make some music, but there is a lot of greed
among artists as well. Whether or not we know it, we are all to blame. I think it's time - starting with the artist - to try to be a little more responsible and aware of what goes on in our
name.”
“Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.”
“Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.”
Source: Feiffer's Album
“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.”
Source: Decoded (Enhanced Edition)
“Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.”
“Artists can no more speak about their work, than plants can speak about horticulture.”
“Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring.”
“Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.”
“Artists change how we see the world - and that can have value in the way people do business.”
“Artists choose their purpose as much as they are chosen by that purpose. In a certain way, art is a revolt against the world in that it encompasses what is fleeting and unfinished: art does not, therefore, take on anything more than the purpose of giving another shape to a reality that it is, nevertheless, constrained to conserve, because reality is the source of art’s emotion. In this respect, we are all realists and no one is a realist. Art is neither total rejection nor total acceptance of what is. It is both rejection and acceptance, at one and the same time, and that is why it can be continually and perpetually torn apart. Artists always find themselves dealing with this ambiguity, incapable of rejecting what is real, yet still devoted to challenging the ever-unfinished aspects of reality.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“Artists, composers and writers...are bent upon capturing and reining in the insights of a fugitive imagination, always inclined to shoot off into the distance, before they can get away, and on bringing them back into the immediacy of material engagement. Like hunters, they too are dream-catchers.”
Source: Imagining Landscapes: Past, Present and Future
“Artists contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. We have a natural inclination to love and dream over the edge. This is our blessing. This is our curse. Our heaven, our hell.”
Source: Vine: Book of Poetry
“Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.”
“Artists create records of transitory moments, appearing to stop their clocks. They help us believe that some things aren’t transitory at all but rather remain beautiful, true, majestic, sad, or joyful over many lifetimes—and here is the proof, painted in pole, carved in marble, stitched into quilts.”
Source: All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“artists create works of art; geniuses curate an emotional response.”
Source: Immaculate Conception
“Artists deserve to make a living”
“Artists die twice. First creatively. Then physically. The second one is the easiest.”
“Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.”
“Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.”
“Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.”
“Artists don’t measure their art by what it can sell for. Price and worth live in different worlds—one can be bought, the other can’t.”
“Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!”