Best artist & goal Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.”

Wells Artist Goal Weak Ultimate Departure Ultimate Goal

“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.”

Way Purpose Artist Values Goal Creativity Habit Demand Achievement Expectations Resources Ultimate Manage Purity Mastery Continuity Validation Ultimate Goal

Author:Twyla Tharp

“The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.”

Reason Artist Passion Goal Equal Intention Good Work Tenacity Interruptions

Author:Odilon Redon

“An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.”

Wells Self Artist Goal Fine Discipline Concern Manifest Heroic Self Discipline Attending

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.”

Thinking Men Way Law Artist Father Goal Serious Medicine Worthy My Way Respectable Being An Artist Serious Work

Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

Inspirational Mean Art Ends Moving Artist Literature Speak Goal Roles Mankind Reader Tasks Ridiculous Irony Pathetic Specialists Carried Away Pathos

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“To me, I would much rather be part of a healthy industry than being the only player in a dead industry. There are so many great artists out there. And the goal is to make great movies, you know? So to be successful, quality is the best business plan as I always say.”

Knows Artist Goal Quality Successful Player Plans Industry Healthy Being Successful Great Art Great Artist Business Plan Best Business

Author:John Lasseter

“Be clear in your mind why learning to draw well is important. Drawing enables you to see in that special, epiphanous way that artists see, no matter what style you use to express your special insight. Your goal in drawing should be to encounter the reality of experience... to see ever more clearly, ever more deeply.”

Way Should Mind Wells Important Matter Use Reality Artist Goal Clear Special Style Draws Importance No Matter What Insight Drawing Encounters

Book:The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Source: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

“Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.”

Giving Made Two Different Together Artist Goal Water Color Painting Materials Stones Ultimate Ingredients Endeavor Fluid Alchemy Ultimate Goal Pigment

Author:James Elkins

“Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.”

Artist Goal Hip Hop Brands Hips Hops Trends Mainstream Endorsements Hip Hop Artist Hip Hop Music

Author:Adam Kluger

“Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.”

Long Artist Courses Goal Careers Achieve Periods Skills Frustration Improving Inability Perfectionist

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.”

Problem Purpose Artist Goal Achieve Particular Satisfied Pursue Precision New Goal

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.”

Has Beens Artist Goal Perception Innovation Visuals Motivated Aesthetic Criteria Procedures Presenting Visual Perception

Author:David Galenson

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.”

Ifs Thinking World Doe Jobs Artist Actors Goal Hollywood Bunch Filmmaker Decent Disagree Hacks Bad Movies Best Artist

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.”

Thinking Knows Wells Littles Two Different Today Artist Wish Goal Decision Attention Path Honest Comfort Crowds Better Life Divergent True Artists Different Paths Well Wishes

Author:Tennessee Williams

“... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.”

Littles Matter Artist Left Goal Boat Fishing Shrinks Explorers Sanctify Fishing Boats

Book:Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

Source: Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

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