T Quotes
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“The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.”
“The artist’s artistic brush stroke
of colour...
Fractionally exists within
the art canvas cover...
Unaware of its existence
in the art’s totality...
Absolute devoid of the art’s
true reality...
Experiencing within the art
is mere illusion…
Truth of the art lies
in the depth of the vision…
For the visionary truth
to become experience...
Requires that certain
conscious distance…
Detaching from the
perceived abode...
Deviating from the miscode
to decode...
Maya illusionary stage
manifests for the play…
As the actor enacts the
illusionary Leela play...
Viewing the play is must
from an audience eye...
Where all the illusionary play
theatrics lie…
Observing the art
as the non intruder...
Is the liberating clarity
for the art observer…”
Source: Maya Leela: The Divine Play Of illusion
“The Artist's Drawing Book by Katy Lipscomb and Tyler Fisher is filled with numerous art lessons for beginner artists. A self-motivated individual will likely find this an appealing way to learn art, though I think teachers might consider this useful in middle and high school classrooms as well. Seventeen different lessons are presented in this book, and each one builds on the other, helping to lay a strong art foundation. You could buy different art books that may have some or most of these lessons, though I’ve not seen any that provide the sort of succinct and precise approach that this one does. Each lesson is carefully thought out and needs to be practiced by the reader. The text is packed to the brim with information essential to succeed in art. That’s what makes this book so valuable.
The lessons are intended to be learned by the budding artist, and so some may take days (or longer) to complete until the user masters the skill. The important thing is not to be in a hurry while working your way through this book. You might want to buy a sketchbook to go along with this, so you can keep your artwork in one place. You might also want to purchase a copy of this book for a friend, so you can practice your art skills together. After teaching art in school for 16 years (grades K-12), I fully understand how The Artist's Drawing Book by Katy Lipscomb and Tyler Fisher is an essential tool for those beginning in art. If you are serious about learning this fascinating subject, then this book is for you. This is an outstanding piece of work.”
“The artist's greatest creation began
the night he washed his memory of his failures
rubbed opium on his lips
drank the wine that women offered him
and lay down and wept.”
“The artist’s rendition displayed evidence of a warped mind. Malevolence flaunted in the form of a portrait painted with blood.”
Source: Lethal Impulse
“The artist's role in the world involves God's people being artistic for everyone, everywhere, and in everything inspired and directed by the law of love.”
Source: Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt
“The artist’s secret lies in fear and awe. Our times have turned them into terror and dismay.”
Source: Flight Out of Time: A Dada Diary
“The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love-is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn't even bother to respond.”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure
“The artist secretes nostalgia around life.”
“The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.”
“The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.”
“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.”
“The artist should always be the student.”
“The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail.”
“The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it. What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and color if the storm is not therein?”
“The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea”
Source: The Art Spirit
“The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.”
“The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.”
Source: Notes on the Piano
“The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.”
Source: Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt
“The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead.”
“The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.”
Source: The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton
“The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.”
“The artist speaks with inspiring tools of creativity. Thinkers challenge with the weapons of choice. These two forces are necessary to move souls beyond limitation.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.”
“The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.”
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings
“The Artist started painting the Ancient Fire, inhaling the wine in search of philosophical beginnings…”
“The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.”
Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon
“The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.”
Source: The Denial of Death
“The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didnt have, I love Frank on it, it had, I love AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Pearl Jam. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.”
“The artist, the true artist, will always be an enemy of the State.”
Source: Memories of Underdevelopment
“The artist thing is just natural. If that comes out, the music, the songs, I need some actual time which I dedicate to it. But I don't have to sit down eight hours a day in order to get out what I need to create. That is just always bubbeling inside and than evetually it just comes out.”
“The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.”
“The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.”
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.”
“The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
“The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
“The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.”
“The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.”
Source: The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more
“The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.”
“The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.”
“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).”
Source: The past recaptured
“The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.”
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.”
Source: Let There Be Sculpture
“The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.”
“The artist who makes himself accessible is self-destructive.”
“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.”
“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.”