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“Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.”

Matter Artist Pay Painting Method Paint Profession What Matters

Author:Jim Rowe

“What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.”

Thinking Feelings Artist My Own Knowing Wise Style Ugly Not Knowing Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Jim Rowe

“Artists make art... everyone else talks about it.”

Art Artist

Author:Paul Russo

“Success for an artist is completed work. Very successful artists complete a lot of work. It's that simple.”

Artist Simple Successful Working It Successful Artists Completed Work

Author:Paul Russo

“An artist is no bigger than the size of his mind.”

Mind Artist Bigger Size

Author:Jack Shadbolt

“I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.”

Giving Form Artist Given Style Shapes Ingredients Equations

Book:In search of form

Source: In search of form

“Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.”

Stories Earth Artist Song Creative Particular Unique Signatures Irreplaceable

Book:The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

Source: The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

“The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.”

Should Play Artist Mirrors Satisfied

Author:Jules Breton

“I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.”

Ifs Men Beautiful Artist Passion He Man Optimism Contrary Optimist Pessimist

Book:The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature

“Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.”

Real Artist Vocabulary

Author:Nelson Shanks

“It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.”

Whole Helping Artist Benefits Raises Profession

Author:T. Allen Lawson

“The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.”

Feels Artist Lines Painting Crosses Profession Painter Transition

Author:T. Allen Lawson

“Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.”

Artist Color Expression Visuals Sensibility Sensitivity Innate Palette

Author:Scott Kahn

“Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!”

Self Artist Paint Deception Deceit Traits Remedy Portraits Self Portrait

Author:Scott Kahn

“Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.”

Artist Education Taught Becoming Degrees Guarantees Diligence Guarantees That

Author:Scott Kahn

“What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?”

World Should Artist Honest Asking Being Honest Being Myself

Author:Scott Kahn

“Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet ended up with an audience of avid admirers.”

Self Artist Forget Audience Groups Feet Taught Recognition Classroom Outsiders Admirer Avid Self Taught

Author:Scott Kahn

“I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.”

Thinking Long Art Artist Imagination My Own Ability Responsibility Gone Concerned Being An Artist

Author:Pierre Coupey

“I have no doubt about a photographer in particular and a digital artist in general having become contemporary icons.”

Art Artist Doubt Particular Photographer Contemporary No Doubt Digital Icons Contemporary Art

Author:Nikolay Semyonov

“Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.”

Knows Persons Whole Artist Painting Drawing Whole Person

Author:Joseph C Zinker

“Artists are part of the information process... Visual history is important in providing a record of what is going on - levels of intention, levels of confidence, levels of aggression or control.”

Important Artist Process Levels Records Information Intention Visuals Providing Aggression

Author:Leon Golub

“If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.”

People Ifs Way Artist Cases Priorities Good Work Deadline

Author:Catherine Yass

“If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Kind Artist Common Materials Scientist Profession Imaginative

Author:Catherine Yass

“An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.”

Looks Artist Sound Expression

Author:Gerald Brommer

“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?”

Knows Made Ideas Feelings Artist Felt Study Subjects Painting Personality Messages Response Sensitivity

Author:Gerald Brommer

“There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.”

World Artist Time Assumption

Author:Wanda Koop

“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.”

Different Enough Artist Easy History Style Painting Serious Periods Pages Training Add Historical Contribution Making History

Author:Liu Dan

“I had no idea what to expect moving to New York. It's embarrassing to say, but I didn't even realize that people bought contemporary art... that people actually paid for it... I know that's really dumb. I was really naive. I had no idea artists made money.”

People Knows Art Made Ideas Moving Artist Realizing Money New York Paid Contemporary Dumb No Idea Embarrassing Naive Contemporary Art Really Dumb

Author:Wade Guyton

“Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that successful artistic creativity depends upon extensive visual exposure.”

“I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.”

Way Believe Play Feelings Form Artist Courses I Believe Felt Emotion Productive Suspects Playing Around

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.”

Needs Dream Desire Artist Anxiety Reflection Mirrors Muse

Author:Vince Aletti

“Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.”

Soul Might Artist Choices Doors Objects Lovers Taste Obsession Revealing Our Choices

Author:Vince Aletti

“That your own interpretation of a work of art is flagrantly subjective seems to be regarded as an arrogant attitude. But the truer view is that the interpretative artist can only make his own comment upon the work.”

Art Seems Artist Views Attitude Art Is Interpretation Works Of Art Comment Arrogant Subjective

Author:Tyrone Guthrie

“Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.”

Artist Social Function Remains Unanswered

Author:Jorg Immendorff

“The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.”

Art Past Artist Energy Strength Possibility Position Masters Communicate Colossal

Author:Jorg Immendorff

“Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity.”

Self Today Artist Passionate Recognition Excellent Intensity Indispensable Promotion Demagoguery Self Promotion

Author:Roman Genn

“I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.”

Firsts Inspiration Moving Desire Artist Motivation Painting Waste Wasting Time

Author:Nita Engle

“Most artists are surrealists. ... always dreaming something and then they paint it.”

Art Dream Artist Paint Surrealist

Author:Dong Kingman

“Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.”

Writing Wells Mean Doe Said Motivational Artist Order Forget Becoming Method Technique Grammar

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.”

People Ideas Artist Directors Executors

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.”

Art Stills Artist Tragic

Author:Marina Abramovic

“It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!”

Artist Sells Illegal Outrage Peanuts

Author:Murray Leinster

“Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.”

Artist Natural Bird Characteristics Butterfly Soar

Author:Alma Gluck

“At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art.”

Thinking World Years Art Important Today Jobs Lasts Artist Crazy Influence Changed Keys Photography Incredibles Treated Cinema

Author:Ferran Adria

“Could you imagine people eating a painting - if they could introduce a painting into their bodies? It's probably the artist's dream, and we have the opportunity to do so.”

People Ifs Dream Body Artist Opportunity Imagine Painting Eating Introducing

Author:Ferran Adria

“A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.”

People Ifs Years Said Important Might Artist Heard Important Things Dialogue Cooks Designer Drivers Chef Lorry

Author:Ferran Adria

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.”

Art Philosophy Artist Members Philosopher Absurd Department

Book:An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

Source: An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays

“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

War Mother Artist Father Mets Chinese Paris Bombs Axes Smuggling Provence Trapeze Cadets Trapeze Artists

Author:Colin Meloy

“All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.”

Has Beens Real Artist Concepts Harmony Philosopher Realms

Book:The Philosophy of Freedom

Source: The Philosophy of Freedom

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