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“An artistic endeavour comes into the world naked, unnamed, and vulnerable. Every creative effort requires the artist to wrest something from nothingness, a purposive cosmos from an apparently indifferent chaos.”

World Artist Effort Creative Chaos Naked Vulnerable Artistic Vulnerability Cosmos Indifferent Nothingness Endeavour

Author:Peter London

“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.”

Years Littles Seems Artist Values Asks Money Effort Five Percent Responsible

Author:Joe Fafard

“I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.”

People Love Art Artist Effort Convinced Unfortunate Wretched

Book:Advertisements for Myself

Source: Advertisements for Myself

“I view all art as an effort to translate brain concepts into a work. These brain concepts are synthetic ones - the result of many experiences. But a single work of art, or even a series of works, more often than not cannot translate these synthetic concepts adequately. Yves Saint Laurent once said that he suffered greatly when creating. He is not alone in that. Most artists do the same and say as much.”

Art Said Artist Suffering Results Views Effort Brain Creating Concepts Series Saint Works Of Art Translate Not Alone Synthetic

Author:Semir Zeki

“Realist artists should join together in a worldwide effort... Sharing it with each other and teaching it - that is the key to the success and never-ending beauty and harmony of Realism.”

Should Together Artist Effort Teaching Keys Harmony Realism Realist Never Ending

Author:Igor Babailov

“The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.”

People Littles Said Reason Care Artist Effort Wise Products Connections Albums Finished Dull No Reason Listeners Files Presentation Nobody Cares File Sharing

Author:John Darnielle

“A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.”

Men Moments Artist Certain Effort Objects Appearance

Author:Edgar Degas

“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”

World Art War Artist Community Effort Solitude Art Is Flesh Select Community Living

Book:Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

Source: Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

“Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.”

Giving Wells Art Might Artist Sound Effort Week Appearance Working It Aspire Patronizing Peeves

Author:James Nares

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Almost nothing worthwhile is easy, and it's hard to just jump in and be good at something difficult right off the bat... The only reliable way to succeed at anything is to actually do it, repeatedly, with concentrated effort. True for individuals, and true for organizations. Athletes, artists, businesses.”

Way Hard Artist Individual Easy Difficult Effort Succeed Organization Athlete Be Good Worthwhile Bats

Author:John Gruber

“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.”

Ends America Artist Effort Adventure Perfection Thirds Strive China Mediums Over It Gaps Leap Imperfect Unfinished Columbus Superhuman Predetermined

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.”

Thinking Mean Happens Artist Individual Effort Streets Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Individual Effort

Author:Conor Oberst

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”