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“The artist himself is often surprised at the finished work of art. He cannot tell 'how it happened', nor could he repeat the feat at someone's bidding.”

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Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.”

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Author:Andrew Wyeth

“If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.”

Ifs May Feelings Artist Views Sky Shapes Mountain Experience Response Paint Finished Canvas Soar Evoke

Author:Lawren Harris

“The subject may be of first importance to the artist when he starts a picture, but it should be of least importance in the finished product. The subject is of no aesthetic significance.”

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Author:John French Sloan

“I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.”

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Author:Richard Estes

“Creativity sometimes needs the protection of darkness, of being ignored. That is very obvious in the natural tendency many artists and writers have not to show their paintings or writings before they are finished.”

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Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“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.”

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Author:John Darnielle

“The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis -- "Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“Well, it was never supposed to be like that. Walt died before we had finished. The original idea of Walt's was that you came down there, into the caves, and there were no pirates. But they had been there just seconds before! There was a hot meal on the table, steaming.”

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Author:John Hench