“I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of my fellow man. I will endeavour to meet this obligation through music, since it transcends language, politics and national boundaries.” MenFirstsArtistLanguageSimpleFellowsBoundariesObligationWelfareFellow ManEndeavourSimple Man Author:Pablo Casals
“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.” ShouldArtistUnderstandingGreaterStudentsAmbitionFellowsPainterHomageFickle Author:Walter J. Phillips
“The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.” HumansMayArtIdeasFeelingsMovingArtistHuman BeingsFellowsChiefsCurrency Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.” MenMeanArtIdeasCareArtistAbilitySceneFellowsObjectivesMediumsPermanentOne ManPinsSymbolismReproductionGood ArtSelective Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.” MenHeartArtArtistFellowsWarmFellow ManClergymenWarm Heart Book:The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Source: The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin