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Source: The question of things happening

“Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.”

World Artist Responsibility Destruction Transformation Messengers

Author:Alice Walker

“Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.”

Artist Mere Photographer Copiers

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.”

Artist Photographer Selfish

Author:W. Eugene Smith

“I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’”

Want Should Wells Artist Universe Notion I Want You Adore Impatience Delighted Prompts

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.”

Way Shows Form Artist Emotion Audience Subjects Duty Calm Excitement Involvement Pouring Olympian

Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!”

Artist Brave Be Brave

Author:Ana Tzarev

“I wanted my friends in the video because to leave a hard place, you need the support of your loved ones. My friends have always done that for me. I had my best girlfriends there, my brother, my guy friends who are like brothers to me and my team who's had my back through my journey. My lead guy was a good friend of mine and a talented artist named Quincy. He's such a cool guy and I felt he would be perfect for the video along with a cameo from Don Benjamin.”

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.”

Way Needs I Can Book Ideas Whole Artist Study Figures Keys Industry Fit Okay Hollywood Edges I Realized Bunch Software Publishing Music Industry Developers Book Publishing

Author:Trip Hawkins

“You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They just have to get it out there. It's the same thing for an entrepreneur. If you don't feel that way, then you're probably not really an entrepreneur.”

Ifs Way Feels Art Artist Passion Entrepreneur Incredibles Great Art Great Artist Bumps Bumps In The Road

Author:Trip Hawkins

“Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.”

World Soul Hands Form Artist Fairs Breathe Bless

Book:KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM

Source: KATHRINA: HER LIFE AND MINE, IN A POEM

“To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion is one of them- knows where to bend and how to break them.”

Knows Mean Art Artist Break Discipline Skills Behavior Behave Proportion

Author:Burne Hogarth

“Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.”

Ideas Action Artist Ability Instinct Appreciation Artistic Conception Originality Lofty Uncommon Ideas And Action

Author:James Jackson Jarves

“A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.”

Ideas Use Feelings Artist Simple Levels Direct Function Simplicity Familiar Containers Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.”

Years Artist Next Cases Century Winter Bridges

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.”

Artist Night Process Rooms Gone Building Projects Sitting Stones Temperature Collecting Day And Night Stressful

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.”

World Running Earth Artist Energy Taught Red Flow Rounds France California Britain Japan Australia Veins Energy And Life

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.”

Ifs Artist Worst Elements Stones Abandoned Splits Explosions Firing Debris

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.”

Ifs Writing Littles Book Happens Would Be Artist Becoming One Day Absolutes Pursuit Crafts Comic Weekend Comic Book Exploring Improving Lifelong Narcissist

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.”

Thinking Needs Book Jobs Artist Comfortable Comic Comic Book

Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor.”

Want Giving Kind Two Book Moments Artist Loses Teach Week Information Give Me Encouragement Checks Comic Editors Comic Book Two Weeks

Author:John Romita, Sr.

“When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'”

People Ifs Want Wells Looks Made Book Stories Hands Jobs Artist Turns Written Comic Comic Book Storyteller Pencils Well Written

Author:John Romita, Sr.

“... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up, which gives us a written synopsis. Originally - I have a little tape recorder - I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon ... so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said.”

Way Giving Littles Said Book Artist Found Forget Worry Written Type Notes Comic Tape Staff Comic Book Carbon Recorders Synopsis

Author:Stan Lee

“I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I am used to dealing with pain. Or perhaps I adjusted to pain because there has been a great deal of it in my life.”

Has Beens Problem Pain Used Artist Deals Buddhism Martial Arts Rama Martial Artist

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

Thinking Book Life Is Artist Found Language Listening Active Concrete Shelter Towers Ivory Active Life Ivory Tower

Author:Sean O'Casey

“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.”

Ifs Made Self Film Artist Interest United Company Greater Return Hollywood Mark Protection Allowing Distribution Self Interest Alliances Craziness Distributors Hart Chaplin

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.”

Art Philosophy Artist History Greek Greek God

Book:Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

Source: Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews

“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.”

Mean Art Philosophy Artist History Aim Stranger Artificial Fine Arts Famous Artist Inspirational Artist Fine Artists Painting Art Painting And Art Artificial Life

Book:Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts

Source: Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts

“When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.”

Art Philosophy Artist Sides History Angel Desert

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...”

Artist Attitude Civilization Flow Thread Present Time

Author:Arthur Erickson

“We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".”

People Years Believe Artist Culture Years Ago India Regard Behave Other Cultures

Author:Arthur Erickson

“There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.”

Knows Kind Book Moments Light Happens Artist Stuff White Building Recognition White Light

Author:Barbara Kruger

“Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.”

Artist Versions

Author:Bill Sienkiewicz

“I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.”

Want Made Artist Stuff Crap

Author:Bill Sienkiewicz

“So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.”

Mind Artist Missing Filled Filled In

Author:Bill Sienkiewicz

“To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.”

Artist Technique Irrelevant

Author:Bill Sienkiewicz

“It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.”

Artist Sells

Author:Don Bluth

“There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.”

Play Artist Games Rooms Castles

Author:Don Bluth

“We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.”

Artist Space Publishers Aces

Author:Don Bluth

“We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.”

Artist Waiting Swings Back Again Pendulums

Author:Don Bluth

“I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.”

Thinking Way Kind Country Beautiful Artist Forget Negative South Beautiful Things Stereotype Northerners Negative Stereotypes

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York meatpacking district. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January.”

Writing Book Ends Artist Next Lines New York Months Summer Stores Opening Writing A Book January Launching Bedding

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“It's not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad taste in color. This is about restoring historic buildings and instilling pride in a community, which can be done through designing new public spaces and social gathering spots.”

Done Artist Social Community Space Rooms Design Building Color Pride Taste Spots Gathering Historic Living Room Restoring Bad Taste

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.”

Artist Found Havens Curiosity Intense Interviewers

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.”

Feels Wells I Can Running Artist Imagine Function Bigger Stress Ships Beast Bugs

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.”

People Knows Want Littles Done Kids Artist Forget Watches Tvs Like You Hair Towns Designer Little Kid

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.”

School Artist Realised Abnormal Normal And Abnormal

Author:Gilberto Hernandez

“We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.”

Stills Stories Artist Grew Superhero Amusement

Author:Gilberto Hernandez

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