“We learned from Gauguin that every work of art is a transposition, a caricature, a passionate equivalent of a sensation which has been experienced. He freed us from all restraints which the idea of copying naturally placed on our painter's instincts. All artists are now free to express their own personality.” Has BeensArtIdeasArtistFreedomPersonalityArt IsInstinctPassionatePainterWorks Of ArtSensationsRestraintCaricaturesCopying Author:Maurice Denis
“The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which they relish both from appetite and from the challenge these offer to skill in competition with popular art.” MenArtArtistLostChallengesAwarenessTasteOffersSkillsCompetitionInstinctSimplicityAppetiteRelish Author:Jacques Barzun
“The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.” ShouldUseArtistLanguageInstinctPhrasesSuggestionsSimplestDistinguishedGreat WritersSelectiveTrivialityHomely Book:The Principles of Success in Literature Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.” IfsThinkingWantYearsAgeAbleArtistBornDutyDemandUniqueInstinctPaintWhat You WantBeing An Artist Author:David Luiz
“With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.” PeopleMenFirstsPersonsArtistStrongSexCreativeWifeCreationFieldsPoetDramaThirdsClaimsInstinctRateVitalityExclusiveCourtshipDeployment Author:Wyndham Lewis
“Nast is an artist of uncommon abilities. His works evince originality of conception, freedom of manner, lofty appreciation of national ideas and action, and a large artistic instinct.” IdeasActionArtistAbilityInstinctAppreciationArtisticConceptionOriginalityLoftyUncommonIdeas And Action Author:James Jackson Jarves
“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.” ArtArtistHighestBlindInstinctStriveDepthFollowingAppearanceArtisticLowestStrife Book:Goethe on Art Source: Goethe on Art