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“There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue.”

People Knows Stories Kids School Artist Wonder Issues Female Asking Gender

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

“The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.”

Artist Audience Internet Tools Interaction

Author:Nick Rhodes

“An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.”

Should Artist Grows Talent Fats Stomach

Author:Norman Reilly Raine

“Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.”

May Country Artist Week Months Max

Author:Edwin Starr

“Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes.”

Artist San Francisco Communes

Author:Gedde Watanabe

“A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.”

Artist Sound Voice

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.”

Want Stills Soul Helping Artist Known Records Stage Glory Train Helping Others Producers Songwriters Solo Crave Spotlight Soul Train

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.”

Able Artist Function Adversity Notion Nine Atmosphere Indifference Nonsense Misunderstanding Hostility

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.”

World Artist Teacher Ought Reporters Great Teacher

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.”

Trying Artist Formulas Competence Incompetence

Book:Mencken Chrestomathy

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.”

Men Should Said Artist Ambition Length Brushes Exceed

Author:Robert Breault

“Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.”

Ifs Looks Use Body Artist Tools Your Body Motive

Author:Robert Breault

“Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.”

Soul Artist Order Turns Lost Understanding Born Imagine Scientist Chaos Abstract Lost Souls

Author:Robert Breault

“On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.”

Use Artist Realizing Doubt Color Colour No Doubt Exhausted

Author:Robert Breault

“If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.”

Ifs Needs Artist Talent Criticism Critics

Author:Robert Breault

“It is a shame to see in the work of an artist the limitations of his critics.”

Artist Shame Critics Limitation

Author:Robert Breault

“In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.”

Artist Discipline Bounds Daring Great Art Great Artist

Author:Robert Breault

“Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.”

Art Artist Greatness Theory Scientist Raises Great Art Relativity Great Artist Great Scientist Theories Of Relativity

Author:Robert Breault

“There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.”

May Art Body Artist Song Voice Results Vision Materials Masters Fine Strings Application Mastery Bows Canvas Brushes Marble Fine Arts Artistry Interfaces Chisels

Author:Robert Breault

“A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.”

Artist Successful Inspired Muse Payment Successful Artists

Author:Robert Breault

“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.”

Thinking Men Two Lasts Artist Talent Painting Painter Muse Brushes Trios

Author:Robert Breault

“To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.”

Book Ideas Artist Religion Six Accounts Good Ideas Genesis Book Of Genesis

Author:Robert Breault

“An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.”

Men Artist Failure

Book:The Theatre of E. E. Cummings

Source: The Theatre of E. E. Cummings

“Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.”

Men Humans Mother Artist Struggle Treacherous Remorseless

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“All Artists are Anarchists.”

Artist Anarchist

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.”

Art Artist Morality Ridiculous Policemen

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.”

Artist Grace Poet Musician Divorce Great Divorce Away From Love

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.”

Men Inspirational Mind Inspiration Artist Suffering Perfect He Man Perfection

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.”

Artist Greater Hunger Suspects Distraction

Author:J. D. Salinger

“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.”

Way Writing School Artist Language Movement Painting Poet Novelists Irritating Appreciative Allegory

Author:A. S. Byatt

“The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.”

Artist Style Labor Comparison Deliberate Alchemist

Author:William Butler Yeats

“The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.”

Artist Greatness Obstacles Great Art Constraints Great Artist Springboards

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.”

Facts Eye Artist Lines Wealth Secret Color Rhythm Tension Contrast Continuity Fusion

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.”

Kind Artist Strong Challenges Struggle Holy Transformation Entrepreneur Wings Butterfly Inventor Newborn Life Struggle

Book:This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“The artist in me cries out for design.”

Artist Cry Design Artistic

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out.”

People Needs Feels Writing Kind Might Kids Young Artist Stuff Emotion Laughing Share Cry All Kinds Platforms Pulling Creative Writing Instructors Young Artists Make You Cry

Author:Clinton D. Powell

“Once you do a piece on the stage, you become that poem or you become that piece. That's really who you are. I think that's why some artists have stage names, you know? I don't have a stage name, it's pretty much just me.”

Thinking Knows Artist Actors Names Acting Pieces Stage Who You Are Theatre

Author:Clinton D. Powell

“No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't”

Art Stills Matter Artist Particular Disdain

Author:Derek R. Audette

“It is not about which artist is more skilled than which other artist. It is about creating what is in you to create. A lack of confidence in oneself is like a thief, It steals from the world that which might be worthy.”

World Art Might Artist Creating Oneself Worthy Stealing Thieves Lack Of Confidence

Author:Derek R. Audette

“The discoveries of science, the works of art are explorations - more, are explosions, of a hidden likeness. The discoverer or artist presents in them two aspects of nature and fuses them into one. This is the act of creation, in which an original thought is born, and it is the same act in original science and original art.”

Art Two Science Artist Born Creation Discovery Aspect Originals Works Of Art Exploration Explosions Fuse Original Thought Original Art

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.”

World Artist Eternal Environmental Eternal Love

Author:Evelyn Underhill

“I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get nothing from it, and they want to move on to the next thing. [I'd rather they be] horrified, pissed off at me, extremely disgusted at how bad of an artist I am.”

Thinking Want Moving Artist Next Middle Worst Reactions Range Mediocre Pissed Off Disgusted

Author:Alex Prager

“There are two ways. One is to be a puppet, follow the culture, and do whatever they want. That was mentally disturbing to me, and still is. And the other way is to go out. I knew there would be problems from my family, and also from my environment. But I thought that physical pain would be better than the mental pain. And I started working as an artist.”

Way Want Stills Two Problem Would Be Pain Artist Culture Environment My Family Disturbing Two Ways Puppets Physical Pain Mental Pain

Author:Malina Suliman

“In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.”

Men Art Said Shows Artist Streets Art Is Afghanistan Graffiti Street Art

Author:Malina Suliman

“Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.”

World Way Important Different Law Artist Different Ways Lenses

Author:Thane Rosenbaum

“There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.”

Mean Bigs Artist Stuff Fans Band My Favorite Heavy Australia Caves Favorite Bands

Author:J. Robbins

“I didn't want to pretend to be a conceptual artist that charges $10,000 for an experience. It's just not what I am. I'm a photographer and I make prints. And people buy a print, and I understand that. But I'm uncomfortable with buying an experience.”

People Want Artist Photographer Uncomfortable Buying Print

Author:Alec Soth

“I never considered myself a performance artist.”

Artist Performances

Author:Agnes Denes

“You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.”

Play Artist Risk Safe Celebrate Rejected

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.”

Giving Writing Artist Something New

Author:Ester Dean