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“Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.”

People Believe Real Self Artist Doubt Self-doubt Real Artists

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”

May Art Self Moments Lying Artist Healing Creative Expression Periods Solitude Encounters Me Alone Self Expression Alone Time Upkeep Recharging

Author:Julia Cameron

“Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.”

Men Wells Self Whole Mother Artist Father Teacher Wife Teaching Lovers Husband Scholar Earning Earning Money

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.”

Spirit Mother Artist Fall Enemy Teacher Wife Land Lovers Violent Mates No Friends

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.”

Ifs Wells Doe Enough Might Artist Social Practice Essence Oneself Deception Deceiving Lifelong Social Life Illusionists Deceiving Others

Book:The Mottled Lizard

Source: The Mottled Lizard

“The work of the artist is to heal the soul.”

Soul Artist Heal

Author:Kathleen Raine

“The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.”

Heart Artist Chance Hungry Compensation

Book:The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection

Source: The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection

“The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.”

Ifs Way Want Artist Music Tears Laughter Spite Temperament Obliged Conductor Despots

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Great art likes chains. The greatest artists have created art within bounds. Or else they have created their own chains.”

Art Artist Bounds Likes Chains Great Art

Author:Nadia Boulanger

“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.”

Ifs Way Young Artist Fall Actors Challenges Too Much Failing Succeed Notion Creator Painter Decent Locked Success And Failure Unhealthy Young Actors Communicators Challenge Yourself

Author:Emma Thompson

“All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.”

Artist Stuff Music Drama Musician Dance Conversion Dancer Etc Translations Choreographers

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.”

Should Trying Whole Artist Sides Car Driving Tricks Bags Civilized Zero Nothingness Nihilism Extremist Precipice Promoters Exhibitionist

Book:The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

“I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.”

Should Said Artist Belief Ability Creative Subjects Creative Art Unwritten Creative Artists Forte Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo

Author:Fredrika Bremer

“I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.”

World Way Want Artist Culture Fun Enjoy Impact Pops Good Times Having A Good Time Sequins

Author:Lady Gaga

“any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.”

Two Artist Mystery Species Magician Moralist

Author:Sue Grafton

“Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am a beautiful woman,' nevertheless seem to think it wholly within the bounds of good taste to announce that they are Christians!”

Thinking World Persons Seems Christian Beautiful Artist Religion Taste Bounds Scholar Nevertheless Great Art Beautiful Women Great Artist Good Taste Announcing

Author:Georgia Harkness

“Real artists find answers. The knowledge of the artisan is within the confines of his skills. For example, I know a lot about lenses, about the editing room. I know what the different buttons on the camera are for. I know more or less how to use a microphone. I know all that, but that's not real knowledge. Real knowledge is knowing how to live, why we live, things like that.”

Knows Different Real Use Artist Answers Rooms Knowing Example Skills Cameras Buttons Editing Lenses Microphones Artisans Real Knowledge Real Artists

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.”

Artist Keys Paint

Author:Lee Krasner

“An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.”

Should Art Artist Fighting Individual Strong Vision Clear Willing Integrity Art Is Remains Familiar Something New Clear Vision

Author:Maya Lin

“The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.”

Kind Art Artist Tricky

Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

“Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.”

Real Seems Artist Repeats Real Artists

Author:Joanna Russ

“How often have I actually discovered in myself that enthusiasm raises the artist above himself, how in an ordinary mood one would not have been able to accomplish many of the things for which enthusiasm lends one everything, energy, fire.”

Has Beens Able Artist Passion Energy Fire Ordinary Raises Accomplish Mood Enthusiasm

Author:Clara Schumann

“Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.”

Art Sometimes Artist Left Speak Return Indifference Rome

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”

“If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.”

People Ifs World Mind Art Artist Humanity Race Practice This World Judging Humble Sense Of Humor Modesty Lowest Ladders Invitations Publicity Flattering Receptive Frame Of Mind Climbers

Book:Streaks of life

Source: Streaks of life

“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”

“The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.”

Art War Artist Can Do Politician Threat Warning Armament

Author:Arthur Miller

“In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It's like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner.”

Hands Artist Suffering Middle Buddhism My Friends Screens Runners Cartoon Erase Erasers Road Runner

Author:Frederick Lenz

“As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.”

“I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.”

World Artist Challenges Inspire

Author:Ariel Rechtshaid

“If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.”

Ifs Artist Half Battle Chemistry

Author:Ariel Rechtshaid

“art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.”

May Art Artist Scientist Repeats Exception Phenomenon Commonality

Book:A Critical Study of Philip Guston

Source: A Critical Study of Philip Guston

“Through poverty, godhunger, the family debacle, I kept a sense of worth. I could limn and paint like no-one else in this human-wounded land: I was worth the while of living. Now my skill is dead. I should be.”

Should Humans Artist Poverty Land Skills Despair Paint Wounded Debacles

Author:Keri Hulme

“If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Hard Might Artist Car Possibility Painting Opposites Accounts Tables Invisible Manage Visuals Engineers Sculpture Visual Art Visual Artist

Author:Richard Tuttle

Should May Inspiration Purpose Artist Effects Aim Landscape Neglect Traits Minors Finishing Authorship Rubens

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.”

Artist Suffering Conviction Cheating

Author:Jenny Diski

“I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.”

Feels Art Feelings Artist Universe Emotion Fiction Fantasy Doors Keys Art Is Immense Rationality Mixtures Sailor Explorers

Author:Augusto De Luca

“Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.”

Feels Doe Art Facts Lying Artist Choices Teach Fine Harmony

Author:Arthur Wesley Dow

“How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.”

Thinking Way Should Artist Force Behave

Author:Martin Firrell

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

“Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.”

Mean Eye Artist Ability Seeing Being An Artist

Author:Keariene Muizz

“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

Stills Ends Problem Artist Space Creativity Inspire Painting Source West Curiosity East Painter Plenty Unexplored

Author:Guity Novin

“These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.”

Needs Art Enough Artist Order Courses Community Environment Machines Inspired Studios Noise Painter These Days Factories Sensibility Be Inspired

Author:Guity Novin

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

“In my paintings, the question on whether figures are similar or not is not of any importance, the slightest change of figure or color can create a new painting and it doesn't really matter if a subject is revisited by an artist repeatedly. With enough time in between paintings, an artist can always bring to it something new.”

Ifs Matter Enough Artist Subjects Figures Color Painting Importance Something New Enough Time

Author:Guity Novin

“The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.”

Years Ends Artist Difficult Water Existence Fire Groups Team Produce Program Bounds Including Painter Magazines Encounters Our Relationship Vans Consulting Matching Obstinacy

Author:Michel Seuphor

“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.”

Artist Fall Actors Hours Memories Silence Darkness Stage Produce Divine Poet Musician Evidence Theater Missions Painter Curtains Sculptors

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.”

Seems Artist Legends

Book:Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

Source: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

“media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.”

Art Artist Turns Grows Chance Media Movement Degrees Destructive Ashes Exhausted Publicity Obscurity Short Time Saturation

Author:Joyce Johnson

“Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.”

Art Artist Choices Courses Pay Chosen Lifelong Pay The Price

Author:Sally Warner

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