T Quotes
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“The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.”
“The artist must be blind to distinction between 'recognized' or 'unrecognized' conventions of form, deaf to the transitory teaching and demands of his particular age.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“The artist must be ecstatic about something.”
“The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.”
“The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.”
Source: Conversations with Ernest Gaines
“The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell.”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
“The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.”
“The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.”
“The artist must create himself or be born again.”
Source: Light Up the Cave
“The artist must create his works as though he would be the only soul to behold them, shards of his very self rendered into being. Otherwise he is simply an artisan, a merchant selling wares for coin at a market.”
Source: Scions of the Emperor
“The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.”
“The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.”
“The artist must forget the audience,
forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music.
Then, the music speaks through the performance,
and the performer and the listener will walk together
with the soul of the composer, and with
God.”
“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
“The artist must know how far to go too far.”
“The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
Source: Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections
“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.”
“The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured, and highly sensitive both to emotional and intellectual contexts. And while the whole public most certainly does not consist in that sort of individual, still the tendency of art is to create such a public - to lift the level of perceptivity, to increase and enrich the average individual's store of values... I believe that it is in a certain devotion to concepts of truth that we discover values.”
“The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.”
“The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies”
“The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts”
“The artist must raise the cup of his vision aloft to the gods in the high hope that they will pour into it the sweet mellow wine of inspiration.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)
“The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist must say it without saying it.”
“The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.”
“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul, so that it can weigh colours in its own scale and thus become a determinant in artistic creation.”
Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular
“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”
Source: Concerning the spiritual in art
“The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.”
“The artist must work so hard, so long, that a brain develops and lives, all of itself, in his fingers.”
Source: Zen & the Art of Writing
“The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though it were condemned by all other artists as anti-musical.”
“The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.”
“The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.”
“The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.”
“The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.”
“The artist needs no religion beyond his work.”
Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others
“The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.”
“The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.”
“The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.”
“The artist of the future will live the ordinary life of a human being, earning his living by some kind of labour. He will strive to give the fruit of that supreme spiritual force which passes through him to the greatest number of people, because this conveying of the feelings that have been born in him to the greatest number of people is his joy and his reward. The artist of the future will not even understand how it is possible for an artist, whose joy consists in the widest dissemination of his works, to give these works only in exchange for a certain payment.”
“The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.”
Source: Paul Klee
“The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.”
“The artist or writer does not impose harmony on reality but—with sufficient reverence and diligence and selflessness and solitude—uncovers the harmony that is always there but that we conceal from ourselves out of a preferencia for material comfort and fear of the consequences a full and unreserved embrace of harmony requires. This faith in the underlying harmony roots itself in a love of and appreciation for nature, because nature, no matter how extreme the human abuse heaped on her, embodies a quiet, continual knitting and healing of life, ever dependent on death to make herself anew. 'Art is a harmony parallel to nature,' Cézanne wrote—not identical with but parallel to nature. Art of any kind, undertaken with atención and focus and as part of a commitment to discipline, is an effort at reenactment of the original creative gesture—the precipitation of the universe at the moment of its creation. That, I believe, is why we sing, paint, dance, sculpt, write; that is why cualquier one of us sets out to create something from nothing, and why the creative impulse is essentially religious or, if you prefer, spiritual. We seek to recreate the original creative gesture, whatever or whoever set it in motion—the bringing into being of what is. We seek the center of beauty.”
Source: At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life
“The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.”
“The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.”
“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself