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“Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.”

People Artist Grows Differences Envy Circles Esteem Inequality Destructive Overwhelming Feeding Insignificant Emulate

Author:Alexander Theroux

“There are clear differences between child and adult artistic activity. While the child may be aware that he is doing things differently from others, he does not fully appreciate the rules and conventions of symbolic realms; his adventurousness holds little significance. In contrast, the adult artist is fully cognizant of the norms embraced by others; his willingness, his compulsion, to reject convention is purchased, at the very least, with full knowledge of what he is doing and often at considerable psychic cost to himself.”

Source: Art, mind, and brain: a cognitive approach to creativity

“One difference between artists and ordinary people is that artists have big egos. In some cases, it's the only difference.”

People Bigs Artist Differences Cases Ego Ordinary Ordinary People Big Ego

Author:Charles Atlas

“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.”

People Knows Giving Trying Kind Has Beens Art Enough Artist Differences Fine Type Profession Not Sure Call Me Fine Arts Illustrators Fine Artists Best Art

Book:Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

Source: Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

“The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the world considers important.”

World Feels Important Artist Sound Differences Sea Green Colour Attending

Author:Eric Maisel

“That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.”

Art Jobs Artist Differences Ability Blood Objects Serious Materials Art Is Wave Caught Obsessed Shore Antidote Craftsman Venom Proust

Book:Truman Capote: Conversations

Source: Truman Capote: Conversations

“I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.”

Thinking Young Artist Differences British Ambitious

Author:Rachel Whiteread

“We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Spirit Artist Differences Vision Talent Skins Caught Technique Sensibility Adequate Great Talent

Book:The Irrational Season

Source: The Irrational Season

“Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.”

Artist Actors Differences Temper Temperament

Book:The lonely life: an autobiography

Source: The lonely life: an autobiography

“It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.”

Thinking Knows Giving Doe Joy Artist Differences Humility Give Me Vain Expenses

Book:The Mask of Apollo

Source: The Mask of Apollo

“I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.”

People Men Feels Wells Looks Art Wanted Artist Differences Wonder Car Ordinary Photographer Wrecks Ordinary Things

Author:Walker Evans

“I just want to be the biggest artist that I can be, and I want to make a difference. I feel like Michael (Jackson) made a difference with everything that he did. He was so charitable and just always on-point. I just want to be where he is, as an artist.”

Want Feels Made I Can Artist Differences Making A Difference Charitable

Author:Justin Bieber

“Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.”

Art Stills Artist Grows Differences Media Mass Traditional Mediums Exception Allowing Decay Mass Media

Author:Pauline Kael