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“The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.”

Writing Whole Shows Action Jobs Artist Plans Scene Jokes Shots Mood Etc Pacing

Author:Craig McCracken

“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.”

Writing Art Action Artist Masturbation

Book:The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

Source: The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

“The process of drawing is... the process of putting the visual intelligence into action, the very mechanics of visual thought. Unlike painting and sculpture... the artist makes clear to himself and not to the spectator what he is doing. It is a soliloquy before it becomes communication.”

Action Artist Process Clear Painting Communication Drawing Visuals Mechanic Sculpture Spectators

Book:Drawing and Sculpture

Source: Drawing and Sculpture

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”

Mind Eye Action Lying Artist White Pure Mere Worn Great Art Great Artist Uneasy Trimming White Lie Prevarication

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“To play chess on a truly high level requires a constant stream of exact, informed decisions, made in real time and under pressure from your opponent. What's more, it requires a synthesis of some very different virtues, all of which are necessary to good decisions: calculatioñ, creativity and a desire for results. If you ask a Grandmaster, an artist and a computer scientist what makes a good chess player, you'll get a glimpse of these different strengths in action.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.”

Knows World Action Artist Individuality Painter Abstract Hats Followers Admirer Monet Hats Off

Author:Milton Resnick

“Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.”

Ideas Action Artist Ability Instinct Appreciation Artistic Conception Originality Lofty Uncommon Ideas And Action

Author:James Jackson Jarves

“I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. Thats double happiness.”

I Can Action Together Artist Fighting Actors Roles Working Together Martial Arts Martial Artist

Author:Mark Dacascos

“In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly.”

Art Action Artist Critics Bread Secure Hostile Your Freedom

Book:Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings