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“One genius has made many clever artists.”

Author:Martial

“I know now that everybody in the arts is forever a beginner. Experience counts for a great deal and very little. Every night onstage I feel I am starting from scratch, still not quite sure what I am doing and where I am going, thrown by the simplest thing that goes wrong.”

Knows Feels Littles Art Stills Artist Night Deals Forever Art Is Starting Thrown Every Night Simplest Scratches Beginners

Author:Joan Rivers

“When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts.”

Art Artist Grateful Moved

Book:The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Source: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.”

Artist Mystery Planets Perception

Author:Anthony Davis

“for what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?”

Art Poetry Artist Sound Poet Sight

Book:Bimbi: Stories for Children

Source: Bimbi: Stories for Children

“The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.”

Men Eye Age Artist Animal Habit Civilization Clothes Priests Bankers Dwelling Bourgeois

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Love is not only a feeling, it is also an art. A simple word, a sensitive precaution, a mere nothing reveal to a woman the sublime artist who can touch her heart without withering it.”

Love Heart Art Feelings Artist Simple Love Is Mere Sensitive Sublime Precaution Withering Simple Words

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.”

Art Artist Language Asia Bali Religion And Art

Author:Anais Nin

“perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.”

Artist Magician

Author:Anais Nin

“America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.”

Want Soul America Artist Hate United States My Soul

Author:Anais Nin

“Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.”

Real Artist Choices Conscious Maturity Unconscious Real Artists

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.”

Needs Humans Artist Human Beings Mets Being An Artist

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Spirit Artist Differences Vision Talent Skins Caught Technique Sensibility Adequate Great Talent

Book:The Irrational Season

Source: The Irrational Season

“the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.”

Artist Judging

Book:Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage

“Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.”

Art Self Form Artist Values Dies Creation Art Is Holiness Paradox Works Of Art Affirmation Blunders Rebuttal

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.”

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.”

Children Real Play Artist Focus Discipline Concentration Small Child

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.”

Artist No Friends

Book:Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin

“I personally have never trusted museums. ... It is because museums, broadly speaking, live off of the art and artifacts of others, often art and artifacts that have been obtained by dubious means. But they also manipulate whatever it is they present to the public; hence, until Judy Chicago, in the 1970s ... few women artists were hung in any major museum. Indian artists? Artifacts only, please. Black artists? Something musical, maybe? And so forth.”

Mean Has Beens Art Artist Black Please Majors Musical Indian Museums Chicago Trusted Hung Manipulate Never Trust Dubious Artifacts Woman Artist

Author:Alice Walker

“The true artist can only labor con amore.”

Art Artist Labor True Artists

Author:Victor Hugo

“I feel I must live alone, alone, alone - with artists only to touch the door. Every artist cuts off his ear and nails it on the outside of the door for the others to shout into.”

Feels Artist Cutting Doors Ears Nails

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)

“Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way. It's no good being an illustrator who is saying a lot that is on his or her mind, if it has nothing to do with the text. . . the artist must override the story, but he must also override his own ego for the sake of the story.”

Ifs Way Mind Different Stories Artist Ego Sake Tricks Different Ways Illustration Illustrators

Author:Maurice Sendak

“the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.”

Men World Art Law Artist Vision Comedy Divine Poet Mirrors Bounds Granted Comic Tragic Strict Sublime Unlimited Condescension Strict Laws

Book:Winter's Tales

Source: Winter's Tales

“The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.”

Doe Artist Common Greatness Depends Individuality Peculiar Artists And Writers

Book:Dreamthorp

Source: Dreamthorp

“The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory. Unable to fulfill it, he goes mad. But when the artist is a woman she fulfills it at the expense of herself as a woman.”

Way Needs Humans Kind Art Whole Artist Born Human Beings Balance Art Is Mad Tension Expenses Works Of Art Psychics

Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

“Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.”

Ifs I Can Whole Artist Growing Duty Failure

Author:May Sarton

“It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.”

People Way Writing Reason Seems Artist Sides Dangerous Poet Civilization Rhyme Abyss

Author:May Sarton

“An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.”

May Artist Museums Pedants

Book:The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

“I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!”

Should Firsts Mother Artist Sides Records Wife Companion Charming Charming Woman Full Time Mother

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“I feel I should not be ... so at the mercy of people's regard. And yet - it is the artist's desire for communication too; without the answering voice you get so numb; you lose faith in your powers to communicate.”

People Feels Should Desire Artist Voice Loses Communication Mercy Regard Communicate Numb

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.”

Ends America Artist Effort Adventure Perfection Thirds Strive China Mediums Over It Gaps Leap Imperfect Unfinished Columbus Superhuman Predetermined

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind”

Mind Artist Activity Surroundings

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet, I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.”

“There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.”

Feels Doe Artist Felt Careers Audience Dangerous Triumph Performers Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Beverly Sills

“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.”

Way States Artist Turns Creative Grace Casts Refusal Creative Art Creative Artists

Book:Letters on Cézanne

Source: Letters on Cézanne

“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”

Knows Seems Able Artist Found Know How Modern Murderer Conqueror

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.”

Artist Order Rooted

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“In every society the artist or writer remains an outsider.”

Artist Remains Outsiders

Book:The prime of life

Source: The prime of life

“Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.”

Said Soul Artist Trouble Be Good

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.”

Persons Art Artist Danger Thrown Quarrels

Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder

Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder

“As a musician, I have always refrained from criticizing another artist.”

Artist Musician Criticize

Author:Jill Sobule

“When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Hard Artist Song Deals Traditional Labels Mtv

Author:Jill Sobule

“Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.”

War Matter Artist Vision Busy Too Busy

Book:The Best of Marya Mannes

Source: The Best of Marya Mannes

“To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.”

World Doe Art Age Artist Courses Voice Gone Successful Talent Skills Presses Property Being Successful Volume Microphones

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“It is the artists who make the true value of the world, though at times they may have to starve to do it. They are like earthworms, turning up the soil so things can grow, eating dirt so that the rest of us may eat green shoots.”

World May Artist Values Grows Eating Green Soil Dirt True Value

Book:Serenissima

Source: Serenissima

“the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.”

Artist Gold Myth Treasure Unconscious Autobiography Dross Greatest Treasure

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.”

Believe Artist Secret Cities Special Yield Venice

Author:Erica Jong

“everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.”

Happens Artist Lost Wonder Things Happen Cease Redeemed

Book:Loitering with Intent

Source: Loitering with Intent

“Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.”

Dream Artist Traditional Nightmare Interpreter Dreams And Nightmares

Author:Doris Lessing

“I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.”

Ifs Artist Wonder Busy

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters

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