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Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

“Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.”

Giving Artist Pleasure Present Day

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.”

Writing Persons Done Artist Hours Practice Income Pens Often Is Interruptions Interrupting Time Is Money

Book:Selections from Eliza Leslie

Source: Selections from Eliza Leslie

“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.”

Wells Eye Jobs Used Artist Turns Imagination Mistake Brain Talent Poet Politician Cooking Fighter Cooks Empires Prize Assets Cleverness Builder

Author:Anne Ellis

“I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.”

People Trying Stories Artist Laughing Jokes Making People Laugh Inappropriate

Author:Kathy Griffin

“Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.”

Feels Heart Art Soul Feelings Artist Dies Unique Carrie Art Life

Author:Marianne von Werefkin

“Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.”

Ifs Giving Should Ends Artist Attention Imagine Honor Hey Museums Mary Masterpiece Offended Resent Hey You

Book:Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

Source: Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

“There are, forever, swamps to be drained, cities to be created, mines to be exploited, children to be fed ... But the conquest of the physical world is not man’s only duty. He is also enjoined to conquer the great wilderness of himself. The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through vast forests, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.”

Men World Humans Children Purpose Artist Loses Cities Roles Darkness Forever Mines Duty Sight Forests Conquer Wilderness Feds Precise Conquest Dwelling Swamps Drained Dwelling Place

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.”

Mean Artist Chance Painting

Author:Teddy Thompson

“Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.”

Lying Artist Journey Patterns Subtle Being An Artist

Author:Graeme Base

“No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.”

Artist Morbid

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.”

Humans Body America Beautiful Desire Artist Animal Powerful Air Performances Horse Difficulty Musical Narrative Fulfillment Latin Latin America Suspended Debut Underwater Humans And Animals

Author:Mark Doty

“Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.”

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Author:Jim Beaver

“I'm truly blessed to be doing what I've always wanted - CREATE. I have found a freedom that is hard to put into words. I always wondered about my projects - which artists are working on what, and which directions should I take? I don't even think of those things now. I passionately go into my studio and ask myself, what would I like to create today?”

Thinking Should Hard Today Wanted Artist Asks Found Projects Blessed Studios Should I

Author:Steve Kaufman

“So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”

“New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.”

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Author:Kenneth Goldsmith

“I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.”

Thinking Want Artist Culture Contemporary Narrative

Author:Rachel Cusk

“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.”

Thinking Writing Kind Character Artist Interesting Creating Opposites Clean Activism Contradiction Activist Odds Palate Creating Characters

Author:Eve Ensler

“We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.”

People Thinking Artist Opportunity Given Window Genre Relevant Spotlight Window Of Opportunity

Author:Eric Church

“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

People Believe Ideas Care Artist Culture I Believe Levels Rooms Cities Streets New York Crowds I Believe In Access New York City Fabric I Care Who Cares Harbors Populist Diffusion

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.”

Want Art Law Artist Successful Streets Performances Abuse Police Artistic Performers Spheres Police Brutality Brutality Begging Confronting Street Art Street Performers

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.”

Art Artist Term Performances Critical Performance Art

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.”

Artist Figures Machines Harder Making Money Massive

Author:Ken Baumann

“Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.”

Thinking Way Want Writing Trying Two Book Problem Artist Three Steps Findings Solutions Exciting Solve One Way Surprising Puzzles Constraints

Author:Peter Turchi

“If you don't have a dream as an artist, you shouldn't be an artist, because you should be working towards something and trying to reach that always, whatever that is.”

Ifs Should Trying Dream Artist

Author:Megan Griffiths

“I never put myself in that box of you're an Oscar winner so you can only do this or that. That's one award, one night, and it does not define my career or it does not define me as an artist. I never wanted to get put in that Oscar box because that's a lonely place to be.”

Doe Wanted Artist Night Careers Lonely Boxes Winner Awards Oscars One Night Lonely Places

Author:Halle Berry

“A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.”

Ifs Kind Littles Today Artist Teeth Noses Fixed Hats Ems Jeans Crooked New Artists

Author:George Jones

“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.”

Ifs Giving Years Two Today Artist Forget Millions Gone Five Four Couple Sells Release Five Years Copies Forget You

Author:George Jones

“Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.”

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Author:George Jones

“I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.”

People Thinking Mind Kind Has Beens Different Artist Poet

Author:Russell Simmons

“I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.”

People Thinking Has Beens Jobs Artist Inspired

Author:Russell Simmons

“There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Reality Artist Sex Subjects Changed Research Reflection Core Seconds

Author:Russell Simmons

“I know I can only do as much as I can do... Although I have so many ideas of my own, I'm still very interested in helping to cultivate and encourage some promising new artists. But there are a lot of people and, unfortunately, a very small window.”

People Knows I Can Ideas Helping Artist Can Do My Own Window New Artists

Author:Tyler Perry

“My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.”

People Knows Artist Community Four Complexes Seven Block Managers Designer Apartment Graphic Warehouse Graphic Designer Cusp

Author:Grimes

“I do not understand why any poet or writer would run for office; that's a different sense of who you are. I'm just a poet. I am as truthful as I can be. That makes me an artist. I heed the people; I do not lead the people.”

People I Can Different Running Artist Poet Office Who You Are Truthful Heed

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.”

Faces Artist Method Evolve Demon

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Resistance in my experience always kicks in when you're trying to move from a lower level to a higher level or to identify with a braver part of yourself or your higher nature. So it's that negative repelling force. It's kind of the dragon that we have to slay every day if we're artists or entrepreneurs.”

Ifs Trying Kind Moving Artist Force Levels Higher Negative Entrepreneur Resistance Kicks Dragons Higher Level Repelling

Author:Steven Pressfield

“Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.”

Art War Self Artist Force Art Is Warrior Sabotage Self Sabotage

Author:Steven Pressfield

“There's no such thing as sculpture or art or anything, it's just a bit of - it's just words, you know, and actually saying everything is art. We're all art, art is just a tag, like a journalists' tag, but artists believe it.”

Knows Believe Art Artist Bits Art Is Journalist Sculpture Tag

Author:John Lennon

“It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.”

Giving Humans Artist Grows Human Beings Back And Forth Give And Take

Author:Hilary Swank

“Sometimes touring can warp reality because you're never in one place long enough to get a feel for it. You don't interact with people long enough to know what real life is. That's why a lot of artists write songs about longing and missing people when they're on the road. I do my best to keep my mind open and I read a lot when I'm on tour, so I hope I have good things to write about. I'm constantly in the songwriting process.”

People Knows Feels Writing Mind Long Real Sometimes Enough Reality Life Is Artist Song Process Missing Longing Good Things Real Life Songwriting Writing Process Touring Warp

Author:Jason Mraz

“I don't want to just be an actor my whole life. I mean I do want to be an actor my whole life but not only an actor, I want to be an artist.”

Want Mean Whole Artist Actors Whole Life

Author:Ansel Elgort

“A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.”

People Knows Artist Fans Depth

Author:Garth Brooks

“I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.”

People Want Feels Country Jobs Artist Stuff Like You Demand Ears Radio Buttons Youtube Streaming Country Artist

Author:Garth Brooks

“I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.”

Country Artist Radio Not Sure

Author:Garth Brooks

“I understand that music is a business, but for people who have control of their stuff, like little Taylor and other artists, I think you'll find them standing up for their music every chance they get.”

People Thinking Littles Artist Stuff Chance Music Is Standing

Author:Garth Brooks

“What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.”

Thinking Wells Art Real Political Artist Literature Risk Intellectual Originals Works Of Art Highlights Political Courage

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.”

Thinking Artist Fit Oneself

Author:Arundhati Roy

“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.”

“I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].”

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Author:Mariah Carey

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