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“The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.”

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Author:Paul Strand

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“Cezanne is one of the most liberal artists I have ever seen... he grants that everyone may be as honest and as true to nature from their convictions; he doesn't believe that everyone should see alike.”

Should Believe May Artist Honest Conviction Grants Liberal Arts Cezanne

Author:Mary Cassatt

“The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.”

Doe Art Artist Enemy Conviction Bigots Dogmatic

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.”

Artist Humanity Salvation Conviction Humanitarian Champion

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Artists are people who are subject to irrational convictions of the sacred. Baudelaire said that an artist is a child who has acquired adult capacities and discipline. Art education should help build those capacities and that discipline without messing over the child.”

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Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.”

Artist Suffering Conviction Cheating

Author:Jenny Diski