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“I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.”

Artist Produce Paint Commerce

Author:Jack White

“Passion is the breath we take, the water we drink to sustain ourselves. Without air and water we perish; without passion an artist will wither and blow away.”

Artist Passion Water Air Drink Breaths Blow Air And Water

Book:Methods of Success: Artists fail because of unfounded fear, jealousy, insecurity, not knowing and a lack of confidence. This book will eliminate these lies from your life.

Source: Methods of Success: Artists fail because of unfounded fear, jealousy, insecurity, not knowing and a lack of confidence. This book will eliminate these lies from your life.

“Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.”

Want Giving Helping Artist Passion Failing Giving Up Rejection

Book:Messages of Effusion: Challenging Answers for Perplexing Career Situations Artists Encounter

Source: Messages of Effusion: Challenging Answers for Perplexing Career Situations Artists Encounter

“I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.”

Real Artist Water Rising Dislike Emerging Real Things Alligators

Author:Jack White

“Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.”

People Art Artist Hours Pay Art Is Paid

Author:Jack White

“The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.”

Artist Felt Emotion

Author:Anagarika Govinda

“Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.”

Mind Different Reason Artist Speak Prejudice Habitual Filters Cloudy

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.”

Art Reality Artist Understanding Challenges Notion Accepted Translate Turmoil

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.”

Artist Passion Demon Muse

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“We artists are a different breed of people. We're a happy bunch.”

People Different Artist Bunch

Author:Bob Ross

“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.”

Problem Bigs Artist Roles Heard Industry Internet Tools Primaries Needles Music Industry Needle In A Haystack

Author:Ali Partovi

“New artists will be discovered and trained. Moreover, when the artists who've gone abroad return home, they can share and pass on skills and knowledge to their peers here. I am certain their stints abroad will make them better artists and mentors. It will teach them discipline and independence. It will broaden their horizons.”

Home Artist Certain Teach Gone Share Return Discipline Skills Independence Horizon Mentor Peers Here I Am New Artists Skills And Knowledge

Author:Ryan Cayabyab

“A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?”

Looks May Doe Real Care Artist Company Solitude Lonely Shoulders Admire Desert Real Artists Does He Care

Book:The arts and their mission

Source: The arts and their mission

“Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence.”

Men Artist Existence Delight Vitality Respectable

Book:Blast

Source: Blast

“I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.”

Eye Artist Bias Compass Voyages Through My Eyes

Book:Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary Criticism

Source: Enemy Salvoes: Selected Literary Criticism

“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.”

Source: Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity

“If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.”

Ifs Kind Art Different Artist Study Genius Works Of Art Great Work Self Absorbed

Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“Who's to say what will one day appear to have been trendsetting? Sometimes artists who receive breathless acclaim initially, seem to conk out. Other artists who don't register so keenly at the time, prove to be trailblazers.”

Has Beens Sometimes Seems Artist One Day Prove Register Breathless Acclaim Trailblazers

Author:Charles Saatchi

“Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way.”

Way Artist Enemy Broken Ought Wholeness Ruined

Author:Ben Okri

“Do you want to be an artist so that the whole world will look at you, or do you want to be an artist because you would like to use your ability to attract attention, to have the world see itself through you differently?”

World Want Looks Whole Use Artist Ability Attention Whole World Recognition

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.”

Thinking World Art Artist Information New York Rely Elites Gallery Sects Ponds Art World Inbreds

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'Let's pray about this right now.”

Artist Prayer Share Praying Right Now Bases Encounters I Pray

Author:Thomas Kinkade

“One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.”

People Bigs Artist Differences Cases Ego Ordinary Ordinary People Big Ego

Author:Charles Atlas

“The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.”

Want Might Artist Term Performances Best Things

Author:Laurie Anderson

“In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.”

Author:Charles Webster Hawthorne

“The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.”

Problem Artist Path Crosses Foundation Starting Contemporary Artistic Developing Soil

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“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.”

Whole Artist Interest Fields Perception Highest Details

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”

Artist Individual Solitude Isolated Being An Artist

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.”

States Lasts Artist Creative Strength Overcoming Reserves Homeless

Author:Asger Jorn

“Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.”

Artist Memories Path Journey Guides

Author:Nick Bantock

“The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.”

Humans Artist Divine Reader Ethics Series Complexes Critics Innocence Just One Architect Confrontation Illustrating Innocence And Experience

Author:John Scott

“Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.”

Ifs Writing Artist Song Girl Female Apples If I Could Female Artists Amazing Song

Author:Jennifer Damiano

“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.”

People Knows Giving Trying Kind Has Beens Art Enough Artist Differences Fine Type Profession Not Sure Call Me Fine Arts Illustrators Fine Artists Best Art

Book:Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

Source: Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”

Should Artist Understanding Greater Students Ambition Fellows Painter Homage Fickle

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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.”

Doe Law Artist Position Suits Landscape Remove Providing Reserves Composition Probability

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.”

Artist Sane Tolerate Collectors True Artists Insincerity Impudence

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.”

Artist Ignorance Stupidity Complaining Indifference Neglected Incompetent Rave Inarticulate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.”

Beautiful Artist Design Shapes Tasks Composition Arrangements Conform

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.”

Artist Criticism Satisfied Labour Sincere Dislike

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied.”

Art Artist Certain Rights Art Is Fundamentals Critics Judged Submit Suggestions Academy Bullied Patron Tribunals Fundamental Rights

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.”

Sometimes Artist Painting Demand Judgment Critics Dull Sincere Competent

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Pseudo-critics prefer to direct their remarks to the artist - Heaven forgive them - but one due rather to a common impression that such an attitude is the correct one, that all paintings should be figuratively mutilated, and that all artists are fair game, or really grateful perhaps for a few tips.”

Should Artist Games Heaven Common Attitude Painting Fairs Direct Grateful Forgiving Critics Dues Impression Remarks Pseudo Fair Game

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract attention to his work, an artist is tempted to descend to sensationalism, whether it is expressed by strong colour, grotesque handling, unusual subject, or sheer size.”

Doe Said Facts Artist Strong Attention Modern Subjects Painting Competition Size Colour Unusual Sheer Unfortunate Ruined Tempted Grotesque Exhibitions Sensationalism

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Since art exists for humanity it is not unreasonable to assume that humanity has some rights in the matter. Who pays the piper calls the tune. An artist cannot be at once a rebel and a comfortable citizen.”

Art Matter Artist Humanity Pay Rights Citizens Comfortable Assuming Tunes Rebel Unreasonable Pipers

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A painter may be an abandoned mimic; at school he copies his teachers, which is only right, but he copies in turn every artist in town, which is not. He may do you that honour.”

May School Artist Turns Teacher Towns Painter Copies Honour Abandoned Imitation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.”

Artist Language Effects Expression Materials Concerned Mediums Limitation English Language Exaggerated

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Aerial perspective has nothing to do with line, but concerns tones and colours, by the delicate manipulation of which an artist can suggest infinite distance.”

Artist Lines Perspective Concern Infinite Distance Tone Colour Manipulation Delicate

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”

Ifs Art Ends Life Is Artist Week Economic Integrity Ideals Independence Profession Preserves Aesthetic Hateful Grind Solace Ideal Life Daily Grind Economic Independence Week End

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Is the artist impelled by spiritual forces, by the divine afflatus, by conscious or unconscious emulation of others? Do angles whisper in the ears of the chosen few, and create for them visions of aethereal beauty? Do landscape painters of genius walk the plains of Heaven? Or is it only vanity that urges him to paint?”

Spiritual Artist Force Heaven Walks Vision Divine Genius Conscious Ears Paint Chosen Painter Vanity Landscape Unconscious Urges Angle Real Beauty Emulation

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.”

Doe Artist Poverty Technique Permit Realism

Author:Walter J. Phillips