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“With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.”

Ifs Needs Feels Soul Running Artist Actors Causes Laughing Crazy Dangerous Drama Areas Painful Your Soul Recess

Author:Josh Peck

“Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.”

Hands Artist Dangerous Gun Great Art Loaded Great Artist Loaded Gun

Author:Peter M. Brant

“There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words. This is the world in which the artist operates and for him words can be dangerous unless they are examined in the light of the work. The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.”

World Light Artist Dangerous Communication Dependent Substitutes

Book:Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art

Source: Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art

“Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?”

Artist Force Dangerous Ambition Edges Driving Motive Driving Force

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.”

Ifs Humans Persons Art Lasts Artist Consciousness Century Dangerous Position Activity Tasks Secular Frontiers Unprecedented Stature Human Activity Autonomous Secular Society

Author:Susan Sontag

“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”

Way Mind Hands Artist Fall Sleep Brain Too Much Dangerous Danger Skills Smart Ease Giants Criticize Facility Dangerous Things

Author:John French Sloan

“It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.”

People Way Writing Reason Seems Artist Sides Dangerous Poet Civilization Rhyme Abyss

Author:May Sarton

“There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.”

Feels Doe Artist Felt Careers Audience Dangerous Triumph Performers Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Beverly Sills

“We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.”

Stills Artist Water Imagination Common One Thing Dangerous Lovers Periods Rivers Release Dry Internals Spells Farmers Psychics Careless Drought Dormant Blooming

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces