A Quotes
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“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
“Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.”
“Artists will come into my office and say, "I just came from another label and they said you're research guys, you're data guys." I don't know what that means. Everybody who says that is being naive.”
“Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.”
Source: Six Months in Italy
“Artists with a capital 'A' are at ease working in all areas of art, whether it is a contemporary abstract painting or work requiring methods and techniques of the Renaissance Masters.”
“Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.”
“Artists with the lack of proper education and experience of working from life will copy whatever is visible on the photograph, without knowing what's underneath. As a result, instead of creating the in-depth and full of character portrait, they draw a mask with no soul.”
“Artists work best alone. Work alone.”
“Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.”
“Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.”
Source: Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir
“Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.”
Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
“Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.”
“Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.”
“Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.”
“Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today.”
“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.”
“Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.”
“ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Artmaking has been, at least since bohemia and modernism appeared in 19th century Paris, largely an urban enterprise: the closer to museums, publishers, audiences, patrons, politicians, other enemies, and each other, the better for artists and for art. For if cities have been essential to artists, artists have been essential to cities...Being an artist was one way of being a participant in the debate about meaning and value, and the closer to the center of things is the more one can participate. This is part of what makes urbanity worth celebrating, this braiding together of disparate lives, but the new gentrification threatens to yank out some strands together, diminishing urbanism itself. Perhaps the new urbanism will result in old cities that function like suburbs as those who were suburbia's blandly privileged take them over.”
Source: Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
“Artmaking involves skills that can be learned. . . In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive. . . Even talent is rarely distinguishable, over the long run, from perseverance and lots of hard work.”
“Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.”
“Artoo,
I'm switching back to regular handwriting. Calligraphy is hard, and I didn't bring my good pens. Or I need more practice.
Right now you're sitting across from me, probably writing HAGS 30 times in a row. I know a little bit of a lot of languages, but even so, I struggle to put this into words. Okay. I'm just going to do it.
First of all, I need you to know I'm not putting this out there with any hope of reciprocation. This is something I have to get off my chest (cliché, sorry) before we go our separate ways (cliché). It's the last day of school, and therefore my last chance.
"Crush" is too weak a word to describe how I feel. It doesn't do you justice, but maybe it works for me. I am the one who is crushed. I'm crushed that we have only ever regarded each other as enemies. I'm crushed when the day ends and I haven't said anything to you that isn't coated in five layers of sarcasm. I'm crushed, concluding this year without having known that you like melancholy music or eat cream cheese straight from the tub in the middle of the night or play with your bangs when you're nervous, as though you're worried they look bad. (They never do.)
You're ambitious, clever, interesting, and beautiful. I put "beautiful" last because for some reason, I have a feeling you'd roll your eyes if I wrote it first. But you are. You're beautiful and adorable and so fucking charming. And you have this energy that radiates off you, a shimmering optimism I wish I could borrow for myself sometimes.
You're looking at me like you can't believe I'm not done yet, so let me wrap this up before I turn it into a five-paragraph essay. But if this were an essay, here's the thesis statement:
I'm in love with you, Rowan Roth.
Please don't make too much fun of me at graduation?
Yours,
Neil P. McNair”
Source: Today Tonight Tomorrow
“Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)
“Arts and sciences in one and the same century have arrived at great perfection; and no wonder, since every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies; the work then, being pushed on by many hands, must go forward.”
Source: The Major Works
“Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.”
“Arts are what free and thriving people do with their time after their critical needs have been met.”
“Arts, culture, and creativity are essential to the human experience, helping us understand our emotions and fostering empathy.”
“Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don’t go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won’t find it and you’ll bugger up your soufflé.”
“Arts education must be part of our education solution because it works for all students.”
“Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.”
“Arts is just as important as military defense, you know? Emotional defense is just as important.”
“Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.”
“Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the thing you're looking at so that it might mushroom in your mind into something that triggers unexpected infinities.”
“Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.”
“Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.”
“Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!”
Source: The joy of living: inspiring and practical writings ...
“Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing of mortal sin. He had committed many, he believed, but the confessional had saved him. He always got to confession on time — that is, before he died. And he knocked on wood whenever he thought of it — he always would get there on time — before he died. So Arturo was pretty sure he wouldn't go to hell when he died. For two reasons. The confessional, and the fact that he was a fast runner.”
Source: Wait Until Spring, Bandini
“Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.”
“Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.”
“Artwork is not thought up in consciousness and then, as a separate phase, executed by the hand. The hand surprises us creates and solves problems on its own. Often, enigmas that baffle our brains are dealt with easily, unconsciously, by the hand.”
Source: Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
“Artwork is super-important, that's why my videos are the way they are.”
“Artwork isn't finished just because you've colored up to every corner on the page. Artwork is finished when you get to the end of your sentence.”
Source: Starfish
“Artwork operates on two different levels: On one level there's artwork as a mode of expressivity, and then there's the other side, where the image is a construction that is meant to engage in a discursive field in order to preform a particular function.”
“Artworks, whether fiction, music, or painting, because they have the power and possibility to become truth, when repeated enough or told enough are somehow truth about what America is, whether they were or not.”
“Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants.”
“Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.”
“Artículo 109. El psicólogo tiene la obligación de informar de los posibles riesgos a los usuarios o terceros que reciban servicios psicológicos de personas no profesionales de esta disciplina”
Source: Código ético del psicólogo
“Artículo 112. El psicólogo muestra una buena imagen de la psicología y de los psicólogos, promoviendo la calidad científica y profesional de dicha disciplina”
Source: Código ético del psicólogo
“Artículo 37. Un Colega no está obligado a abrirle caballerosamente la puerta a nadie [...], ellas mismas pueden abrir las puertas. Seamos sinceros, una puerta no pesa tanto.”
Source: The Bro Code
“Artù andò alla porta della fucina, la spalancò e fissò il cortile. Niente vi si muoveva, a parte i soliti cani. Si voltò.
- Sei un uomo onesto, figlio - ammise a malincuore. - Un uomo onesto. Sono orgoglioso di te. Ma hai un'idea troppo buona del mondo. C'è il male là fuori, il vero male, e tu non ci credi.
- Tu ci credevi, quando avevi la mia età?
Artù riconobbe con un mezzo sorriso l'acutezza della domanda. - Quando avevo la tua età, credevo di poter rifare il mondo. Credevo che il mondo avesse bisogno solo d'onestà e di gentilezza. Credevo che il trattare bene la gente, il mantenere la pace e il praticare la giustizia sarebbero stati ricompensati con la gratitudine. Credevo che il bene avrebbe annullato il male.
Rimase pensieroso per qualche attimo. - Forse pensavo che le persone fossero simili ai cani e che, offrendo loro abbastanza affetto, sarebbero state docili - riprese, amaro. - Ma le persone non sono cani, Gwydre, sono lupi. Un re deve governare migliaia di ambiziosi e ognuno di loro inganna. Sarai adulato e, alle tue spalle, deriso. Ti giureranno fedeltà eterna e intanto trameranno alle tue spalle.
Scrollò le spalle. - E se sopravviverai ai complotti, un giorno avrai la barba grigia come me, guarderai la tua vita e ti accorgerai di non aver realizzato niente. Un bel niente. I bambini da te ammirati in braccio alle madri saranno cresciuti e diventati assassini, la giustizia da te imposta sarà in vendita, la gente da te protetta sarà ancora affamata e il nemico da te sconfitto minaccerà ancora i confini.
Parlando, era diventato sempre più furioso. Ora con un sorriso addolcì la collera. - É questo che vuoi?
Gwydre lo guardò negli occhi. Pensai per un attimo che avrebbe esitato o forse discusso con il padre, invece diede ad Artù una buona risposta.
- Quello che voglio, padre, è trattare bene le persone, dare loro la pace e offrire loro giustizia.”
Source: La spada perduta