T Quotes
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“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.”
“The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.”
“The artist has to be a guardian of the culture.”
“The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.”
“The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.”
Source: Romare Bearden, his life & art
“The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.”
“The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.”
“The artist has tremendous power to change the world.”
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Seven: The Art of Calligraphy (Excerpts); Dharma Art; Visual Dharma (Excerpts); Selecte d Poems; Selected Writings
“The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.”
“The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.”
Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting
“The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.”
Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
“The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.”
“The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings.”
“The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death”
Source: Notes on Life and Letters
“The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.”
“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.”
Source: Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
“The artist in me cries out for design.”
Source: The poetry of Robert Frost
“The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.”
Source: Writers of the Future
“The artist invites the spectator to take a journey within the realm of the canvas... Without taking the journey, the spectator has really missed the essential experience of the picture.”
Source: The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art
“The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity. He takes snapshots, makes notes and records impressions on tablecloths or newspapers, on backs of envelopes or matchbooks. Why one thing and not another is part of the mystery, but he is omnivorous.”
“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”
Source: Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
“The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.”
“The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.”
“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”
“The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.”
Source: Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir
“The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception.”
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”
Source: Picasso: style and meaning
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was to bear the Messiah, was obedient to the command.
...I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me." And the artist either says, "My soul doth magnify the Lord," and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses; but the obedient response is not necessarily a conscious one, and not everyone has the humble, courageous obedience of Mary.
As for Mary, she was little more than a child when the angel came to her; she had not lost her child's creative acceptance of the realities moving on the other side of the everyday world. We lose our ability to see angels as we grow older, and that is a tragic loss.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.”
“The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.”
“The artist is a vessel for creativity. He has the key to the door of a very special place, which he can open at will. He doesn't paint but is painted through.”
“The artist is always beginning.”
“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”
Source: Ezra Pound perspectives: essays in honor of his eightieth birthday
“The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.”
“The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.”
“The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.”
“The artist is always the servant, and is perpetually trying to pay for the gift that has been given to him as if by a miracle. Modern man, however, does not want to make any sacrifice, even though true affirmation of the self can only be expressed in sacrifice.”
“The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.”
Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing
“The artist is called a creator.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.”
“The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.”
“The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.”
“The artist is justified by his art.”
Source: Stained Glass
“The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.”
Source: The Shape of Content
“The Artist is no other than he who unlearns what he has learned, in order to know himself.”
“The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear.”
“The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.”