“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.” WayPurposeArtistValuesGoalCreativityHabitDemandAchievementExpectationsResourcesUltimateManagePurityMasteryContinuityValidationUltimate Goal Author:Twyla Tharp
“We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.” JobsArtistForgetMoneyMonthsDemandSixLawyerProducersErasMaking MoneyTunesEngineersDestinedSix MonthsAccountants Author:Tony Bennett
“The sincere artist is usually his own best critic, but continuous and prolonged work on one painting will sometimes dull his judgment... The critic is in demand, but he must be competent.” SometimesArtistPaintingDemandJudgmentCriticsDullSincereCompetent Author:Walter J. Phillips
“Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.” NeedsIdeasArtistDemandCriticsApplauseCollectorsCondemnation Author:Robert Genn
“An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.” NeedsArtistOrderDemandCriticismStudiosTunesInstructionSensibilityTune Up Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.” NeedsArtistAbilityTalentColorDemandAppetiteAlertness Book:Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989 Source: Wolf Kahn: New Work, 1987-1989
“You are right in demanding that an artist should take an intelligent attitude to his work, but you confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly.” TwoDifferentProblemArtistDemandDifferent ThingsPosingTwo Different Things Author:Anton Chekhov
“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.” IfsThinkingWantYearsAgeAbleArtistBornDutyDemandUniqueInstinctPaintWhat You WantBeing An Artist Author:David Luiz
“Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.” RealFeelingsArtistSocialFailingDemandAchievementCreatorArtisticHeightConformDestinedTailored Author:Semir Zeki
“The average artist, if he chooses, could render an exact drawing of what he sees. Artistic work not only allows but demands some deviation from form and line. Just how far this may go depends on the viewpoint of each painter.” IfsMayFormArtistLinesDependsDemandAverageDrawingPainterArtisticRealismViewpointsDeviation Author:Edgar Alwin Payne
“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.” WayGivingHas BeensReasonSeemsAgeSchoolArtistCultureInfluenceCenturyEvolutionPeriodsDemandMadPropertyTendenciesCuriousLoudLogicalDividedAbandonedPopeRhymeNoveltyAccuracyPolishedFactionsSensationalBardsGiving WayGeorgians Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“Jerry Goldsmith is an artist who meets all the demands upon the composer in films. He communicates, integrates, subordinates, supports, and designs with discipline.” FilmArtistSupportDesignDisciplineDemandCommunicateComposerIntegratingSubordinatesJerry Author:Jerry Goldsmith
“I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.” PeopleWantFeelsCountryJobsArtistStuffLike YouDemandEarsRadioButtonsYoutubeStreamingCountry Artist Author:Garth Brooks