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“For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.”

Want Should Artist Acting Injustice Crafts Aesthetic Honing

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.”

Giving Has Beens Film Form Artist Acting Pure Film Acting

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”

“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

“Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.”

Thinking Able Artist Acting Visuals Standpoint

Author:Common

“Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.”

Ifs Way Artist Acting Painting Photography I Realized Another Way

Author:Common

“I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.”

Ifs Knows World Way Writing Art Would Be Artist Acting Involved Performing Art World Performing Arts Producing Movies

Author:Claudia Lee

“Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are formed by the circumstances acting upon them since birth. These circumstances include the ambiance created by the other, lesser artists of their own time, who have all done their part in creating the pressure that forces up an exceptional talent. Unjustly, but unavoidably, the very closeness of a great artist to his colleagues and contemporaries leads to their eclipse.”

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Book:The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

Source: The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work

“In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.”

People Ifs May Made Play Use Artist Acting Knowing Judging Delight Excuse No Excuses

Book:The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]

Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]

“A defective voice will always preclude an artist from achieving the complete development of his art, however intelligent he may be.... The voice is an instrument which the artist must learn to use with suppleness and sureness, as if it were a limb.”

Ifs May Art Use Artist Voice Acting Achieve Development Intelligent Instruments Limbs Defective

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.”

People Years Different Form Artist Actors Opportunity Acting Style Color Exciting Excitement Unstoppable Different Colors

Author:Kirk Cameron

“The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.”

Knows Needs Art Whole Eye Artist Speak Acting Half Steps Taught Late Height Charm Summit Always Wrong

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe