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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

“Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.”

Ifs Art Ends Life Is Artist Week Economic Integrity Ideals Independence Profession Preserves Aesthetic Hateful Grind Solace Ideal Life Daily Grind Economic Independence Week End

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.”

Artist Values Products Strive Aesthetic

Book:The letters of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The letters of Evelyn Waugh

“The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.”

Should Firsts May Artist Subjects Products Importance Finished Significance Aesthetic

Author:John French Sloan

“To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets, does not originate in an aesthetic clique. It expresses the violent desire that stirs in the veins of every creative artist today.”

Doe Today Young Desire Artist Creative Cry Poet Ideals Violent Rebellion Aesthetic Veins Creative Art Clique Creative Artists Young Artists Futurist

Author:Umberto Boccioni

“Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.”

Has Beens Artist Goal Perception Innovation Visuals Motivated Aesthetic Criteria Procedures Presenting Visual Perception

Author:David Galenson