T Quotes
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“The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.”
Source: The role of the artist in conservation
“The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.”
“The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.”
“The artist as an artist must be an anarchist”
“The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”
Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
“The artist as citizen is here to stay.”
“The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.”
“The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.”
“The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch. These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art. In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”
“The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.”
Source: Conversations with John Updike
“The artist by his work is known.”
“The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.”
“The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.”
“The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.”
“The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life.”
“The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?”
“The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people.”
“The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.”
“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.”
Source: Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin
“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words.
The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.”
Source: High Tide in Tucson
“The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.”
“The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.”
“The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy. If then two or three natural accents can be added, obviously no harm is done. The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.”
“The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.”
“The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.”
“The artist does not really create; he discovers.”
“The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.”
“The artist doesn't have to concern themselves with posterity because, ultimately, the audience will decide. Our only option is to do the best we can here and now.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“The artist doesn't hide behind a role – not even the role of the artist.”
Source: Lie like an artist: Communicate successfully by focusing on essential truths
“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”
“The artist doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. Have it on the screen but have the people come out of the theater into a world of peace, of a beautiful world. They don't have to suffer in their lives.”
“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”
“The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.”
“The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist enriches the soul of humanity.
The artist delights people with
a thousand different shades of feeling.”
“The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.”
“The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes”
“The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.”
“The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.”
Source: Nobel Prize Library
“The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.”
“The artist Georges Rouault wrote: 'An artist is like a galley slave, rowing toward a distant shore that he will never reach.' We all have a distant shore we'll never reach. But we can get so much richness from life while accepting that we are always rowing. Stretch yourself to consider the stories of desire. Learning never ends, and the particulars of life experiences are remarkable. Keep asking yourself what you want, and while you see the distant shore, notice and appreciate where you are, where you've come from, and all that it means to be you.”
Source: Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires
“The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.”
“The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.”
“The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.”
“The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.”
Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann
“The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.”
Source: Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961
“The artist has only to trust his eyes.”
Source: Rodin on Art and Artists