“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.” IfsWantArtDoneArtistHoursCrazyCreaturesProjectsArchitectureRipEleventh Hour Author:Maya Lin
“The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist at her most outlandish - profane, eccentric, even a little mad - is at least as disquieting a figure.” HumansLittlesArtistFiguresTasteCreaturesMadPassionateTruthfulTemperamentRebelliousEccentricProfaneOutlandish Author:Eric Maisel
“Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.” KnowsFirstsDoeArtFeelingsArtistCertainImaginationEmotionObjectsKeysCreaturesRelationLaysIntenseLimitationBarriersCompositionSplendidNew WorkDecide Upon Book:Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
“The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.” IfsKnowsMenTwoEarthArtistThreeBehindsKnowingFeetHe ManCreaturesDancingInspiredLeavingSurfaceTalesPrint Book:Lord of the Flies Source: Lord of the Flies