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“For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.”

Giving Able Artist Strong Divine Pure Give Me Goddess Greece Vigilant Hera

Author:Francois Mitterrand

“Not every painter has a gift for painting, in fact, many painters are disappointed when they meet with difficulties in art. Painting done under pressure by artists without the necessary talent can only give rise to formlessness, as painting is a profession that requires peace of mind. The painter must always seek the essence of things, always represent the essential characteristics and emotions of the person he is painting.”

Giving Mind Persons Art Done Facts Artist Emotion Talent Painting Essentials Essence Difficulty Pressure Profession Painter Characteristics Peace Of Mind Disappointed Under Pressure

Author:Titian

“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

“I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.”

Giving Form Artist Given Style Shapes Ingredients Equations

Book:In search of form

Source: In search of form

“I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Helping Artist Creativity Focus Protect Creator Supposed To Be Regimes Copyright Freedom To Choose

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Some artists, such as Jack Kirby, need no plot at all. I mean I'll just say to Jack, "Let's let the next villain be Dr. Doom" ... or I may not even say that. He may tell me. And then he goes home and does it. He's so good at plots, I'm sure he's a thousand times better than I. He just makes up the plots for these stories. All I do is a little editing ... I may tell him that he's gone too far in one direction or another. Of course, occasionally I'll give him a plot, but we're practically both the writers on the things.”

Needs Giving May Mean Littles Doe Stories Home Artist Courses Next Gone Thousand Plot Villain Drs Editing Doom One Direction

Book:Stan Lee: conversations

Source: Stan Lee: conversations

“In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”

Giving Years Young Artist Girl Asks Realizing Deals Industry Majors Decided Articles Promotion Exclusive Music Industry Hope For The Future

Author:Taylor Swift

“All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor.”

Want Giving Kind Two Book Moments Artist Loses Teach Week Information Give Me Encouragement Checks Comic Editors Comic Book Two Weeks

Author:John Romita, Sr.

“... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss it. Then he types them up, which gives us a written synopsis. Originally - I have a little tape recorder - I had tried taping it, but then I found no one on staff has time to listen to the tape again later. But this way he makes notes, types it quickly, I get a carbon, the artist gets a carbon ... so we don't have to worry that we'll forget what we've said.”

Way Giving Littles Said Book Artist Found Forget Worry Written Type Notes Comic Tape Staff Comic Book Carbon Recorders Synopsis

Author:Stan Lee

“A lot of artists give up because it's just too damn hard to go on making art in a culture that by and large does not support its artists. But the people who don't give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They've taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different sorts of artists, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check, that being genuinely happy for someone else who got something you hope to get makes you genuinely happier too.”

“It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.”

Giving Wells Body Artist Sex Easy Known Fine Models Dresses Proportion Well Known Statues

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

“It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.”

Giving Running Artist Next Chance Company Support Records Air Materials Musician Breathe Finding Yourself Once Upon A Time Record Companies Support You Zeppelins Really Sad New Artists

Author:Gene Simmons

“As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.”

People Thinking Giving Feels Should Care Artist Who Cares Appreciated Really Cool Interactive

Author:Zachary Levi

“When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it within me. I know what I know. I won't make up stuff. But if it's something I've been through, I'll share my experiences and tell them the truth.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving I Can Young Artist Asks Stuff Answers Share Ask Me Young Artists

Author:Michael Tait

“There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.”

Giving Wells Mean Persons Artist Like You Critics Good And Bad

Author:Ricky Gervais

“It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.”

Giving Artist Voice Voiceless Speaking Up

Author:Barbra Streisand

“Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.”

Giving Kind Littles Whole Bigs Seems Life Is Artist Next Millions Pieces Creation Particular Birth Give Me Surprise Innocent New Things Living Things Refreshing

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“One of the marks of true genius is a quality of abundance. A rich, rollicking abundance, enough to give indigestion to ordinary people. Great artists turn it out in rolls, in swatches. They cover whole ceilings with paintings, they chip out a mountainside in stone, they write not one novel but a shelf full. It follows that some of their work is better than other. As much as a third of it may be pretty bad. Shall we say this unevenness is the mark of their humanity - of their proud mortality as well as of their immortality?”

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.”

Men Giving Stories Artist Witness Oath

Author:Sylvia Townsend Warner

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

“Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.”

Giving Artist Pleasure Present Day

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“Mary is God's masterpiece. Have you ever walked into a museum where an artist was displaying his work? Can you imagine him being offended if you were viewing what he considered to be his masterpiece? Would he resent your looking at that instead of at him? 'Hey, you should be looking at me!' Rather, the artist would receive honor because of the attention you were giving his work. And Mary is God's work, from beginning to end.”

Ifs Giving Should Ends Artist Attention Imagine Honor Hey Museums Mary Masterpiece Offended Resent Hey You

Book:Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

Source: Rome Sweet Home: Our Journey to Catholicism

“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.”

Ifs Giving Years Two Today Artist Forget Millions Gone Five Four Couple Sells Release Five Years Copies Forget You

Author:George Jones

“It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.”

Giving Humans Artist Grows Human Beings Back And Forth Give And Take

Author:Hilary Swank