A Quotes
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“Artists lead unglamorous daily lives of discipline and routine, but their work is full of passion. Each has a vision and feels responsibility to that vision.”
“Artists leave but their art remains in this world forever.”
Source: Quantraz
“Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home”
Source: Edvard Grieg: 16 Lyric Pieces
“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”
Source: Cat Watching
“Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.”
“Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.”
“Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.”
“Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.”
“Artists love other artists. Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Very often audacity, not talent, makes one person an artist and another a shadow artist-hiding in the shadows, afraid to step out and expose the dream to the light, fearful that it will disintegrate to the touch.”
Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition
“Artists love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form, just as God created form out of chaos in Genesis. Forever unsatisfied with the mundane, the apathetic, the conventional, they always push on to newer worlds.”
“Artists make art for themselves. Art is an honest expression. Artists who pander to their fans by trying to make music "for" their fans make empty, transparent art. The true fan does not want you to make music for them, they want you to make music for you, because that's the whole reason they fell in love with you in the first place.”
“Artists make art. Singers sing. Players play. Gypsies travel. Music lights fires everywhere. It's like oxygen!”
“Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.”
“Artists make normal songs. Then Radio stations, TV and DJ’s turn those normal songs into hits”
“Artists make their work to be seen by others. Well, really we do it to please ourselves, but whatever your art is, you want it to be seen by an audience. In theory, especially in the independent world, ironically, you do stand a chance of making a bit of money if the film gets distribution.”
“Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.”
“Artists make worlds for people to walk through.”
“Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.”
Source: Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future
“Artists, musicians, composers and writers are all experiencing upheaval which could match that of a factory becoming automated.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Artists must also reckon with the uncanny feeling that by the time we’ve finished a new work, we’ve often ended up creating something different from what we set out to do. This feeling of surprise, of the unexpected, can delight or disappoint us. … The creative process is an inexplicable, inspired, crystallizing place where the artist becomes an audience to the work, almost doesn’t know where it came from.”
Source: How to Be an Artist
“Artists must be men of wit, consciously or unconsciously philosophers; read, study and think a great deal of life.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.”
“Artists need a lot of collectors, all kinds of collectors, buying their art.”
Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic
“Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft... Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.”
“Artists need pockets.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.”
“Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.”
“Artists need to express.”
“Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.”
“Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.”
Source: The Best of Marya Mannes
“Artists never seem to get bored with life.”
“Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.”
“Artists now decline to go to bed with beauty, fearing they'll wake up with kitsch.”
“Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.”
“Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.”
Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation
“Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.”
“Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.”
“Artists of the world arise - it's time to dump your dealers.”
“Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.”
“Artists often feel sad without knowing why.”
Source: Sex Surrealism Dali & Me
“artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.”
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.”
“Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.”
“Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.”
“Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.”
“Artists project their work into the prism of art, and aesthetes admire the spectrum that emerges on the other side.”
“Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.”
Source: Blast
“Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It's what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.”
“Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.”