T Quotes
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“The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.”
Source: The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
“The artist who thinks negatively about his or her work invites others to think about it negatively as well.”
“The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.”
“The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait,
A revenge not only necessary but right and clever--
Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.”
Source: New and selected poems
“The artist works by locating the world in himself”
“The artist would remember being fourteen as feeling like he was always homesick, because he realized as an adult that that was what the emptiness in his chest was: some of us are born in the wrong place, the whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a dessert island, we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet. That's all childhood friends are, people stuck on the same island. If you find a single one of them, you can cope with almost anything.”
Source: My Friends
“The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.”
Source: Degeneration
“The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.”
“The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.”
Source: Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989
“The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.”
“The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.”
Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections
“The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.”
“The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.”
“The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.”
“The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.”
Source: Asger Jorn
“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
“The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.”
“The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.”
“The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.”
“The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.”
“The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.”
“The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.”
“The artist's mission must not be to produce an irrefutable solution to a problem, but to compel us to love life in all its countless and inexhaustible manifestations.”
“The artist's morality lies in the force and truth of his description.”
“The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit.... [he] must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.”
“The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.”
“The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at the floor, you can look up. It's not your role to follow the others. It's your role to go to your centre and then reflect that, not just to be a mirror to what's happening.”
“The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.”
“The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.”
“The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.”
“The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.”
“The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a
world from the smallest part of a thing.”
Source: Auguste Rodin
“The artist's task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a world of aesthetic reality, but to perceive the aesthetic reality within the actual reality. (On photographs by Helen Levitt)”
Source: A Way of Seeing
“The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist's view of the world and mankind is that which seeks as far as possible to lose itself in its object, illuminating it not from the outside by some light foreign to it, but from within, deriving light from its own core.”
Source: A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation
“The Artist's Way is a spiritual journey, a pilrimage home to the self.”
“The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.”
Source: Spillville: A Collaboration
“The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.”
Source: Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait
“The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.”
“The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.”
“The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.”
Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.”
“The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.”
Source: The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters
“The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.”
“The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”