“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.” UsedArtistCultureCoursesLanguageInterestChristianityAudienceMaterialsGeniusTasteCapacityAccountsPaintIndifferenceLazinessIgnoredStrictMarbleIncompetenceTamedHaughty Author:C. S. Lewis
“To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.” BookIdeasArtistReligionSixAccountsGood IdeasGenesisBook Of Genesis Author:Robert Breault
“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.” GivingTwoArtistLinesTeacherTeachingStyleStudentsShapesOppositesAccountsPaintVarietyExplanationColourUnexpectedBeing An ArtistInexplicableBeing A Teacher Author:Pierre Alechinsky
“The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.” MenLongHas BeensArtistIndividualAccountsForgottenIndividualismRevolt Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
“That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.” WantSelfArtistEmotionPerspectiveAccountsBeing An ArtistSelf Indulgent Author:Jessica Origliasso
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHardMightArtistCarPossibilityPaintingOppositesAccountsTablesInvisibleManageVisualsEngineersSculptureVisual ArtVisual Artist Author:Richard Tuttle